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BLP sources|date=April 2011Infobox musical artist| image =| image_size = 150 ||name = Robert Walter|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|origin = New Orleans , San Diego |birth_name = Robert Walters|alias =|genre = Jazz , Funk , Soul Jazz |instrument = Hammond B3 organ , piano , Keyboard instrument|keyboards |years_active = 1990s–present|current_members =|label = Fog City Records |associated_acts = Robert Walter's 20th Congress, The Greyboy Allstars , VW Duo, Creedle , Stanton Moore Trio|website = http://www.fogworld.com/robert Fog City Records presents: Robert Walter|past_members =|Biography = Robert Walter is a keyboard player specializing in instrumental soul jazz on the Hammond B3 organ. He is a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars , and has since led his own band Robert Walter's 20th Congress.
Biography
Robert Walter has built a reputation as one of America's heaviest jazz-funk keyboardists.Citation needed|date=April 2011 As a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars , he toured throughout North America and Europe with the group for five years.cite web|title =Robert Walter: Biography |first=Ann |last=Wickstrom |publisher=Allmusic| url =Allmusic|class=artist|id=robert-walter-p224500/biography|pure_url=yes |accessdate =7 April 2011 Along the way, he contributed to the soundtrack of the major motion picture Zero Effect and has performed and recorded with such jazz and funk heavyweights as Fred Wesley , Gary Bartz , Skerik , Melvin Sparks , Andy Bey , Reuben Wilson , Harvey Mason , Red Holloway , Chuck Rainey , Phil Upchurch , Mike Clark (jazz musician)|Mike Clark , Johnny Vidacovich and Steve Kimock .
At the age of 30, Robert left the Greyboy Allstars and formed a new band, Robert Walter's 20th Congress. The group featured Robert on electric piano and Hammond B3 organ, Cochemea "Cheme" Gastelum on alto sax, electric sax and flute, Chris Stillwell on bass and Stanton Moore on drums. The 20th Congress released their debut full-length recording '' Money Shot (Robert Walter's 20th Congress album)|Money Shot '' on San Francisco's Fog City Records in 2000.liner notes
He has also recorded a semi-tongue-in-cheek Christmas record, In A Holiday Groove for Fog City Records .
Walter moved from his native San Diego to New Orleans in 2003, and subsequently reunited with producer Dan Prothero to record Super Heavy Organ with local legends Johnny Vidacovich , James Singleton (musician)|James Singleton , Tim Green , and Stanton Moore .
Walter can be seen in the 2007 Columbia Pictures release "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story", for which he helped write one of the soundtrack's more audacious numbers, "(Mama) You Got To Love Your Negro Man". In a 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' uncredited cameo, he briefly appears as the keyboard player in the house band for Dewey's 1970s variety show, "The Dewey Cox Show".
Discography (as leader)
'' Spirit Of '70 (album)|Spirit Of '70 - Greyboy Records , 1996 with Gary Bartz (musician)|Gary Bartz
Health And Fitness (album)|Health And Fitness - 1999 with the 20th Congress
Money Shot (album)|Money Shot - Fog City Records , 2000 with the 20th Congress
There Goes the Neighborhood (album)|There Goes The Neighborhood - Premonition (Emd) , 2001 Solo
Giving Up The Ghost (album)|Giving Up The Ghost - Magna Carta Records , 2003 with the 20th Congress
Super Heavy Organ - Magna Carta Records , 2005 with Super Heavy Organ
Cure All (album)|Cure All - Palmetto, June 2008
Discography (as a sideman)
The Clinton Administration (album)|The Clinton Administration - Magna Carta Records , 2004 with The Clinton Administration (band)|The Clinton Administration
III (Stanton Moore album)|III - Telarc , 2006 with Stanton Moore
Emphasis& #33; (On Parenthesis) - Telarc, 2008 with Stanton Moore
Stanton Moore - Groove Alchemy|Groove Alchemy - Telarc International , 2010 with Stanton Moore & Will Bernard
Discography (with the GreyBoy Allstars)
West Coast Boogaloo with Fred Wesley (album)|West Coast Boogaloo with Fred Wesley - Greyboy Records , 1995
A Town Called Earth (album)|A Town Called Earth - Greyboy Records , 1997
GBA Live (album)|GBA Live - Relaxed Records / Ada Records , 1999
What Happened to Television? , 2007
Discography (with Creedle)
Half Man Half Pie - Cargo Music / Headhunter Records , 1992
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars - Cargo Music / Headhunter Records , 1994
When the Wind Blows - Cargo Music / Headhunter Records , 1996
References
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External links
http://www.robertwalter.com/ Official Site
http://www.fogworld.com/robert Fog City Records presents: Robert Walter
http://www.archive.org/details/RobertWalters20thCongress Robert Walter's 20th Congress collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
http://auralstates.com/2008/10/robert-walter-trio-brings-the-funk-something-else.html Interview with Robert Walter on Aural States (Oct 2008)
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