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

Walcott was born in New York City on April 24, 1945. He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and was a percussion student at Indiana University. After graduating in 1966, he went to the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied sitar under Ravi Shankar and tabla under Alla Rakha.

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”.

Collin Walcott, a founding member of the ”world music” ensemble Oregon, died Thursday in a hospital in Magdeburg, East Germany, after a car crash. He was 39 years old. Mr. Walcott, who played the sitar and tabla in the group, was one of the few Western musicians to incorporate this type of instrument into an ensemble.

Nov 10, 1984 Mr. Walcott, who was born in New York City, studied at the Yale School of Music, majored in percussion at Indiana University and later studied ethnomusicology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also studied sitar with Ravi Shankar and tabla with with Alla Rakha. As a classical percussionist, he performed with the Toronto, Detroit and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras. After playing with the Paul Winter Consort, in the late 60’s, he co- founded the quartet Oregon with Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, and Glen Moore. They made 14 albums.