Walter Booker Obituary

An obituary for bassist Walter Booker, known as "Bookie," born on December 17, 1933, in Prairie View, Texas, and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father taught at Howard University's medical school.

It traced how Booker took up the bass while serving in the Army after graduating from Morehouse College, and how in 1959 he joined Andrew White's JFK Quintet at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, where Cannonball Adderley heard the group and brought it to wider attention.

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