death_date years_active label background birth_date article_title name occupation
october 12 , 1972 1920s & ndash ; 1935 arc , banner records solo_singer december 20 , 1902 or december 4 , 1903 walter roland
 walter roland pianist , singer , guitarist , songwriter
walter roland

walter roland was an american blues , boogie-woogie and jazz pianist , guitarist and singer , noted for his association with lucille bogan , josh white and sonny scott .
music journalist , gérard herzhaft , stated that roland was `` a great piano player ... as comfortable in boogie-woogies as in slow blues . ''
`` roland - with his manner of playing and his singing - was direct and rural , '' herzhaft added .
