Walt Dickerson has been played on NTS in shows including Launette's Hour w/ Laura Coxeter, featured first on 13 June 2015. Songs played include Tenderness, Death And Taxes and Utopia.

Walter Roland Dickerson(born April 16, 1928 or 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - [ died [May 15]], 2008) was a jazz vibraphone player most associated with post-bop.

He graduated from Morgan State University in 1953 and after two years in the Army he settled in California. There he started to gain attention leading a band with Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille, but it was his later time in New York City that earned him full notice. In…