James “Jim Daddy” Walker

This artist is nearly as unknown as the idea of walking in Kansas City, maybe due to his surname itself. Adam “Jim Daddy” Walker was both blessed and buried there, doubling on electric guitar and bass in the ’30s in the sort of outfits that inspired many well-known jazz instrumentalists such as for example guitarist Charlie Christian. Walker was barely pacing being a violinist in his high-school orchestra, strolling in to the rhythm parts of both George E. Lee and Jap Allen by the first ’30s. His best-known partner in syncopated moving for the total amount of that 10 years was the friendly sounding Clarence Appreciate. In the ’40s, Walker placed on the big shoes and boots of Four A great deal of Tempo, a barely plodding harbinger of R&B. Subsequently he performed both electric guitar and bass on a number of other recording periods through the ’40s, a lot of that work heading uncredited. Three weeks just before Walker passed away, he taped with vocalist Walter Brown.