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Walt Fowler was born March 2, 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah. At age 6,
he started playing piano, then took an interest in trumpet at age 8.
Basically self taught, he practiced along with records, from Miles,
Coltrane and Bird to Ellington, Basie and Woody Herman.
In 1974, he joined Frank Zappa and the Mothers and appeared on the live
album, "Live at the Roxy and Elsewhere". In 1975, he toured with the Billy
Cobham Band along with Tom Malone, John Scofield and Milcho Leviev.
He then moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 1975. He formed a band with
his brothers known as "The Fowler Brothers Band". In 1976, he recorded with
George Duke on the "From Me To You" album, and numerous Johnny "Guitar"
Watson albums. He toured with Flo & Eddie, and later with Ray Charles and
Buddy Rich's Big Band.
In 1986, he toured with George Benson, and then rejoined Frank Zappa's band
in 1987 for the "Broadway The Hardway" tour. He appears on the CD's:
"Broadway The Hardway", "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life",
and "Make A Jazz Noise Here", all live recordings from that tour.
He then started touring with Diana Ross, and has performed live and/or
recorded with such names as; James Brown, Roberta Flack, Stanley Clarke,
Yazawa, The Doors, Manhattan Transfer, Fishbone, Paula Abdul, Luis Conte,
Billy Childs, Chad Wackerman, Brandon Fields, Banned From Utopia and
many others. He is also featured on many major motion picture soundtracks,
including; Backdraft, Regarding Henry, Pacific Heights, The Lion King,
Speed, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, The Rock, Con Air, Twister, Face-Off,
Armageddon, Enemy of the State, and many others.
He was also an orchestrator on many of these films and others such as;
The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, Chicken Run, The Adventures of Rocky &
Bullwinkle.
Most recently Walt can be heard on Andy Summers'
tribute to Thelonius Monk album, "Green Chimneys", and the new
Allan Holdsworth CD, "The Sixteen Men of Tain", and Simon Phillips'
new CD, "Vantage Point".
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