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Walter Bishop Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer, born on October 4, 1927, in New York City, NY, USA. He passed away on January 24, 1998, in the same city. The son of a composer, Walter grew up in a musical environment and attended high school alongside notable friends such as Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He began his musical career after World War II, collaborating and recording with prominent jazz figures 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, Walter studied at The Juilliard School under Hall Overton and later taught music theory at colleges in Los Angeles during the 1970s. In 1983, he began teaching at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. He also authored "A Study in Fourths," a book focused on jazz improvisation based on cycles of fourths and fifths.

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