Walt Weiskopf

A potent tenor saxophonist and composer firmly within the custom of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, Walt Weiskopf was created in Augusta, GA, and was raised in Syracuse, NY. Upon shifting to NEW YORK, he became a member of the Buddy Affluent Big Music group in 1981 at age 21; 2 yrs later, Weiskopf authorized on using the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, concurrently developing his personal quartet with sibling Joel on trumpet, Jay Anderson on bass, and Jeff Hirshfeld on drums. His debut, Precise Science, made an appearance in 1989, adopted a year later on by Mindwalking; Simpleness, released in 1992, topped the Western jazz graphs for a month. After 1993’s A GLOBAL Away, Weiskopf for the very first time departed from unique compositions to record 1995’s Night time Lights, a assortment of specifications; 1997’s Music for My Mom, however, came back his own materials towards the forefront. A graduate from the Eastman College of Music in Rochester, NY, Weiskopf and fellow Eastman alum Ramon Ricker teamed in 1990 to create the books Coltrane: A Player’s Guidebook to His Tranquility as well as the Augmented Size in Jazz; in 1994, Weiskopf also released Intervalic Improvisation, a player’s guidebook for broadening the range of contemporary jazz improvisation. In 1996, he became a member of drummer Rick Hollander’s quartet, so when a headliner came back in 1999 with Anytown. Siren was released a year later on.