Illumination (Walter Davis Jr. album)

Illumination
Studio album by
Walter Davis Jr.
Recorded February-December 1977
Studio A&R Studios, New York City
Sound Ideas Studios, NYC
Genre Avant-garde jazz, modal jazz, post-bop
Length 69:49
Label Denon Records
Pony Canyon Records
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Illumination is an album by the jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr. Davis uses an out-of-tune piano and the cover shows Davis at a toy piano.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Walter Davis Jr. unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Scorpio Rising"
  2. "Illumination"
  3. "Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady"
  4. "Backgammon"
  5. "Abide with Me" (Henry Francis Lyte)
  6. "Crowded Elevator"
  7. "Theme from 'La Strada'" (Nino Rota)
  8. "Biribinya Nos States"
  9. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter)
  10. "Pranayama"
  11. "I'll Keep Loving You" (Bud Powell)

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