Walt Fowler

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Walter Ernest "Walt" Fowler (born March 2, 1955 in Salt Lake City ) is an American trumpeter and flugelhorn player of fusion music and modern jazz . He is also known as a synthesizer player , composer and arranger .

Live and act

Fowler comes from a musical family; he is a son of university professor and jazz teacher William L. Fowler and brother of musicians Tom and Bruce Fowler . At the age of six he received his first piano lessons; at the age of eight he switched to the trumpet. He was first known for his participation in records and tours by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention , such as Roxy & Elsewhere and Unmitigated Audacity . From 1975 he played in the family band The Fowler Brothers , with whom he presented two albums. He also played with Billy Cobham ( A Funky Thide of Sings ), Johnny Guitar Watson , Buddy Rich and Ray Charles . In the 1980s he worked with Brandon Fields , with whom he also recorded, then he accompanied George Benson (1985-87).

In 1988 he worked again with Zappa; he presented the music of Broadway the Hardway on tour with his formation (and was accordingly also involved in the other live albums Make a Jazz Noise Here and The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ). Then he belonged to the groups of Diana Ross (1989-92) and Billy Childs (1990-1993). He toured Europe several times with both Zappa and Childs and the Grandmothers . Since 2001 he has been part of James Taylor's band , with whom he has toured internationally. Between 1975 and 2013 he worked on 69 albums in the field of jazz, for example with Manhattan Transfer , Allan Holdsworth and Steve Gadd . He can also be heard on albums by Edgar Winter , Fishbone , Paula Abdul , Billy Childs, Banned from Utopia , Toto and Andy Summers . He also composed the score for Kamikaze Hearts by Juliet Bashore and for the short film The Notice by Sonny Saito. He has also orchestrated the music of numerous feature films.

Discographic notes

  • Brandon Fields / Walt Fowler / David Goldblatt Everybody's Business (1991)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ a b biography 2009
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography
  4. ↑ Walt Fowler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Fowler, Walt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fowler, Walter Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trumpeter and flugelhorn player of fusion music and modern jazz
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Salt Lake City