Walter Bishop, Jr. has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 14 episodes and was first played on 5 February 2017.

Walter Bishop, Jr. (April 10, 1927 – January 24, 1998) was an American bop and hard bop jazz pianist.

He was the son of composer Walter Bishop, Sr.. In high school his friends included Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He began his musical career after World War II, and played and recorded with Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Curtis Fuller, Terry Gibbs, Clark Terry, Blue Mitchell, and Supersax. In the early 1960s he also…