[2][3] These groups, along with the trio Codona, which was founded in 1978, combined "jazz improvisation and instrumentation with elements of a wide range of classical and ethnic music".
[2] Walcott also played on the Miles Davis 1972 album On the Corner,[2] had three releases under his own name on ECM Records,[3] and taught at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
[3] Author David James Duncan wrote retrospectively in 1996 about an Oregon concert he attended in Cascade Head in his piece "My One Conversation with Collin Walcott".
Along with an electronic drum kit "to his north", Walcott "had five different tablas to his south, a sitar to his east and a bewildering semicircle of rattles, chimes, clackers, bells, whistles, finger-drums, triangles and unnameable noisemakers to his west.
"[4] Within his brief career Walcott played with a range of different musicians of different styles and contributed to the following albums:[5] With David Amram With Bobby Callender With Don Cherry With Larry Coryell With Cosmology With David Darling With Miles Davis With Rachel Faro With Cyrus Faryar With Egberto Gismonti With Tim Hardin With Richie Havens With Dave Liebman With Alan Lorber Orchester With Meredith Monk With Jim Pepper With Vasant Rai With Alla Rakha With Tony Scott With Titos Sompa With Ralph Towner With Barry Wedgle With Elyse Weinberg With Paul Winter