Member Since: 3/2/2007
Band Website: walter-clark.com/
Band Members: Solo pianist, singer, and multiple keyboard player appearing in some of the finest hotels, night clubs, restaurants, and cruise ships in America and the Far East since 1980 with a repertoire of over 500 songs Covering music that has a positive message timelessness and staying power. Although Walter usually performs as a One Man Band, using grand piano, multiple keyboards and drum machine, he shuns the use of sequencers and prerecorded backgrounds. Through a wide variety of musical genres and original arrangements Walter imbues every performance with a jazz ambience delivering relaxing renditions of ballads and love songs. Currently performing at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Osaka. He also teaches, studies jazz, lectures on human rights and works with juvenile delinquents in the Japanese school system.
.In October 2006 he released a new solo CD entitled Many Splendid Things, a jazz fusion collection of uniquely arranged standards. "During regular performance I play many styles of music but my aim in producing this CD is to showcase a few of my favorite standard tunes for the enjoyment of the more adult listeners....and to continue to put some meat on the table"
He is currently in pre-production of a new album.
Influences: My dear uncle, McCoy Tyner, Joe Sample, Quincy Jones, John Lennon, Lalah Hathaway, Donnie Hathaway, Chicago, Hiroshima, Earth Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Bob Marley, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Santana,Sting, Stevie Wonder,
Sade,Seal, Keith Jarret, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Grover Washington Jr. Lionel Ritchie
Sounds Like: Suggest you listen to some of the clips of the current CD to get an idea. Basically relaxing vocals with healing phrases embedded in the music. Sound is still evolving...just like me.
Record Label: Clark Enterprises
Type of Label: Indie