Cedar Walton, one of jazz's foremost pianists and composers, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 79. Admired for the crisp elegance, subtlety and swing of his playing and arranging, Mr.

Piano Jazz's 30th-anniversary celebration continues as pianist Cedar Walton, a guest on the show's first season in 1979, returns to the program with guest host Bill Charlap. Walton's resume includes ...

Cedar Walton's contemporaries were and are some of the greatest, most innovative jazz musicians in that music's history. Walton, a pianist who moved to New York City in the mid-1950s, walked the ...

Cedar Walton, one of the top jazz pianists to emerge in the aftermath of bebop, died Monday morning at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to his wife, Martha. Walton was 79. The pianist and ...

Among Friends (Cedar Walton, Evidence). It is a simple pleasure to listen to Cedar Walton play piano. He has all the basics, beginning with swing. There`s a literate sense of humor, too, that shows up ...

Cedar Walton, a powerful hard-bop pianist who appeared on more than 400 recordings and combined a meaty, rhythmic playing style with sensitive, delicate solos, died August 19. He was 79. [Photo of ...

Cedar Walton has been a first-call hard bop pianist for almost as long as there's been hard-bop. In a splendid, though often underappreciated, career spanning six decades, he's had notable stints in ...

Sad news from the jazz world: Hard-Bop pianist Cedar Walton has passed on at the age of 79 in Brooklyn. Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton’s ...

Born in Dallas, Texas, on January 17 1934, Cedar Anthony Walton had his first piano lessons from his mother, herself a classically trained pianist. She also took him to local concerts by jazz pianists ...

Cedar Walton, one of the top jazz pianists to emerge in the aftermath of bebop, died Monday morning at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to his wife, Martha. Walton was 79. The pianist and ...