Collin Walcott

Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984) was a North American musician known for working in jazz and world music.

Collin Walcott
Born(1945-04-24)April 24, 1945
DiedNovember 8, 1984(1984-11-08) (aged 39)
East Germany
InstrumentsSitar, tabla
Associated actsOregon
Websitewww.collinwalcott.com

He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and was a percussion student at Indiana University. Walcott became interested in traditional Indian music, studying sitar under Ravi Shankar and tabla under Alla Rakha. According to critic Scott Yanow of Allmusic, Walcott was "one of the first sitar players to play jazz."[1] He came to prominence in the early 1970s due to work with Tony Scott, Miles Davis and the Paul Winter Consort. Several members of the Paul Winter ensemble, including Walcott, split off to form the group Oregon.

Walcott was killed in an automobile accident in East Germany during a 1984 Oregon concert tour. He was replaced by Trilok Gurtu.

Author David James Duncan wrote retrospectively in 1996 about an Oregon concert he attended in Cascade Head in his piece "My One Conversation with Collin Walcott". Duncan described Walcott as sitting "buddha-style" on stage, surrounded by instruments. Along with an electronic drum kit "to his north", Walcott "had five different tablas to his south, a sitar to his east and a bewildering semicircle of rattles, chimes, clackers, bells, whistles, finger-drums, triangles and unnameable noisemakers to his west. He was the first Western 'jazz' percussionist I'd ever seen sit flat on the floor like an East Indian."[2]

Discography

As leader
  • Cloud Dance (1976) ECM 1062
  • Grazing Dreams (1977) ECM 1096
  • Dawn Dance (1981) ECM 1198 (with Steve Eliovson)
  • Works (compilation) (1988) ECM/Polygram 837 276

With Oregon
  • Our First Record CD (1970) Universe 42
  • Music of Another Present Era CD (1973) Vanguard VMD-79326
  • Winter Light CD (1974) Vanguard VMD 79350
  • Distant Hills CD (1974) Vanguard VMD-79341
  • In Concert CD (1975) Universe 25
  • Together (w/Elvin Jones) CD (1976) Universe 9
  • Friends CD (1977) Vanguard 79370-2
  • Out of the Woods CD (1978) Discovery 71004
  • Violin CD (1978) Universe 40
  • Moon and Mind CD (1979) Vanguard VMD 79419
  • Roots in the Sky CD (1979) Discovery 71005
  • In Performance CD (1980) Wounded Bird Records 304
  • Oregon (ECM, 1983)
  • Crossing (ECM, 1984)

With Codona
  • Codona (recd.1978, pbl.4/1979) ECM 1132
  • Codona 2 (recd.1980, pbl.2/1981) ECM 1177
  • Codona 3 (recd.1982, pbl.2/1983) ECM 1243

With Tony Scott

With Miles Davis

With Meredith Monk

See also

References
  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/collin-walcott-mn0000089828/biography
  2. David James Duncan (1996). "My One Conversation with Collin Walcott". River Teeth: Stories and Writings. Bantam. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780553378276.
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