Ah, Winston Walls. He played around Lexingon on and off in the 70's-early 80's...a really loud, take control dynamo. We worked at Up Jump the Devil and O'Keef's as a trio and worked opposite each other after hours at Comers and The Sportsman.He occasionally made structure errors (occasional questionable changes), but made up for most of it in pure force, magnatism and power. Heard from a mutual friend that he's been having some health problems.

My only problem with the Jack McDuff deal is, Jack was older and more established than Winston and Winston approached that Philladelphia deal as an out-an-out war...no respect for McDuff, and I thought he really deserved that.

Winston is an old school "cutting session" kind of guy, and those sessions can be brutal!

Winston had no finess at all...but got more out of a B-3 than anyone I ever heard live, including Jimmy Smith.

What a character!


Russ