Robert Walter
Robert Walter has built a reputation as one of America’s heaviest jazz-funk keyboardists. As a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars, he toured throughout North America and Europe with the group for five years.Along the way, he contributed to the soundtrack of the major motion picture Zero Effect and has performed and recorded with such jazz and funk heavyweights as Fred Wesley, Gary Bartz, Melvin Sparks, Andy Bey, Reuben Wilson, Harvey Mason, Red Holloway, Chuck Rainey, Phil Upchurch, Mike Clark, Johnny Vidacovich and Steve Kimock.
At the age of 30, Robert left the Greyboy Allstars and formed a new band, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress. The group featured Robert on electric piano and Hammond B3 organ, Cochemea “Cheme” Gastelum on alto sax, electric sax and flute, Chris Stillwell on bass and Stanton Moore on drums. The 20th Congress released their debut full-length recording Money Shot on San Francisco’s Fog City Records in 2000.
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