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Walter Bishop, Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer born on October 4, 1927, in New York City, NY. He passed away on January 24, 1998, in the same city. The son of a composer, Walter attended high school with notable musicians such as Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He began his musical career after World War II, collaborating and recording with prominent artists including Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Curtis Fuller, Terry Gibbs, Clark Terry, Blue Mitchell, and Supersax. In the early 1960s, he led his own trio featuring Jimmy Garrison and G. T. Hogan, and he continued to perform into the 1990s. In the late 1960s, he studied at The Juilliard School under Hall Overton, and in the 1970s, he taught music theory at colleges in Los Angeles. In 1983, he began teaching at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Additionally, he authored "A Study in Fourths," a book focused on jazz improvisation based on cycles of fourths and fifths.

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