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About Giving Up The Ghost
Product Description This former Greyboy All-Star explores new territory, incorporating elements of electroinc music and dub reggae into his tradition R&B and jazz roots, all ppwered by his vintage Fender Rhodes and Hammond B-3 organ. The result is a sound that combines every from a music into a driving, syncopated groove that will move fans of jazz, soul, blues, roots rock and even jam bands. From the Artist "I've always been interested in anything that deals with rhythm and improvisation," says Walter. "Anything that combines is satisfying to me. It doesn't necessarily have to fit into one genre or another. This new record is definitely an attempt to bring in some modern influences." About the Artist Walter's eclectic musical roots trace back to his San Diego home town, where he broke into the business doing blues dates with his stepfather, a working bar band musician. From there, he expanded into a series of bands that played everything from George Clinton to electronic punk, constantly experimenting and searching for new sounds while staying true to the primal elements of the Booker T and Ramsey Lewis records he grew up on. Then came the epiphany that brought it all together. "There was a bar in San Diego called the Green Circle Bar," Walter recalls. "I had gotten a call from a friend of mine about doing this project for this guy, DJ Greyboy, who spun old records, basically like '60s and '70s jazz records. I went into the place and heard all this music and quickly realized that I had been wanting to hear that music all along but didn't know where it was." Walter soon found out. He became an original member of the Greyboy Allstars, a band whose explosive improvisations made them the a founding father of the acid-jazz revolution of the mid-90s and a force in live music around the world. In 1996 he released his first solo album, "Spirit of 70". Since then constant touring and recording with his band 20th Congress, earning him a place among the keepers of the jazz-soul flame.
