Collin Walcott

Collin Walcott (April 24, 1945 – November 8, 1984 NY) was an American musician who worked on jazz and world music.

According to critic Scott Yanow of AllMusic, Walcott was “one of the first sitar players to play jazz”. Walcott moved to New York and played “a blend of bop and oriental music with Tony Scott” in 1967–69. Around 1970 he joined the Paul Winter Consort and co-founded the band Oregon. These groups, along with the trio Codona, which was founded in 1978, combined “jazz improvisation and instrumentation with elements of a wide range of classical and ethnic music”.

Walcott also played on the Miles Davis 1972 album On the Corner, had three releases under his own name on ECM Records, and taught at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

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