Walt Harpers Attic

Walt harper s attic located in market square from 1969 1976 and harper s jazz club located in one oxford centre from 1982 1988.

Walt harpers attic.

Rite 5306 stereo 28369 2 walt harper live at the attic 9 8 71 rgs 539 a 2. Nearly 40 years after the final coda walt harper fans remember a musical giant who lived his life the way he played jazz with many a grace note. He also owned another club harper s in downtown pittsburgh from 1983 to 1988. Walt harper s attic 1969.

Edit release new submission. Nelson harrison on february 12 2011 at 4 45am. Harper remained at the crawford until 1969 when he opened his own club walt harper s attic downtown in market square up a flight of stairs above a state store. He did a lot of his own work.

Walt harper split with his partners and sold walt harper s attic in 1975 a move that allowed him to concentrate more on his music. You need to be a member of pittsburgh jazz network to add comments. Harper successfully owned and operated two nationally recognized jazz clubs. In 1958 harper s band started a long standing gig at the popular crawford grill in the hill district.

First there was no problem with generating goodwill with the city s jazz fans. 1 member likes this. The walt harper jazz music education fund has been established to recognize youth particularly in the pittsburgh area who exhibit outstanding talent and promise in jazz instrumentation and the jazz field. In the years that followed he would not only open other successful venues but would help to curate and produce jazz festivals continue his work as a composer and start a record label via which he recorded four cds with his old friend ray brown.

Reviews add review r7116178 release. Rite 5306 stereo 28370 2 walt harper live at the attic 9 8 71 rgs 539 b 2. It ended up the perfect spot for a club. While in town performing at the crawford grill or walt harper s attic and other venues they all stopped by for dinner and of course the occasional jam session writer executive producer sharynn harper brings to this documentary project years of experience in the entertainment business.

Matrix runout side a. Matrix runout side b. But the memories of walt harper who died in 2006 still resonate within the hearts and minds of so many pittsburghers who climbed the stairs to the attic. Walt harper for the love and joy of jazz 2013 a biography of walt by sharynn harper.