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LOU DONALDSON

General Info

  • Genre: Jazz / Soul

    Location BLUES WALK, BADIN, North Carolina, US

    Profile Views: 58833

    Last Login: 9/26/2009

    Member Since 6/22/2006

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    ......MySpace Layouts...... .. ...... .. LOU DONALDSON - alto saxophone - BORN: November 1, 1926, in Badin, NC - Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, who recorded for Blue Note from 1952-63 and 1967-75, was a supremely soulful player who established a distinctive sound that enabled him to emerge from under the vast shadow cast by .. ...... .. Charlie Parker's legacy. A leading member of the earthy, blues-based hard-bop movement of the mid-1950s, Donaldson later helped establish the widespread popularity of sax and organ combos during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Donaldson began playing clarinet when he was 15 before switching to the alto saxophone. And he performed in a military band while serving in the Navy after college before moving to N.Y. in 1952. It was then, at the age of 25 that Donaldson made his Blue Note debut on a Milt Jackson quintet date. He followed this with his label debut as a leader, a quartet session with Horace Silver, Gene Ramey and Art Taylor. In addition to recording with Thelonious Monk and working briefly with Charles Mingus and Sonny Stitt, he co-led a quintet recording with Clifford Brown in 1953 and in 1954 took part in a memorable engagement with Brown, Silver, Art Blakey and Tommy Potter, documented on A Night At Birdland, Vols. I & II, that was a precursor of the illustrious Jazz Messengers. The Best of Lou Donaldson, Vol. I charts the saxophonist's progression from a swinging hard bopper collaborating with Blue Note stalwarts Donald Byrd, Sonny Clark, Horace Parlan, Wayne Shorter and Grant Green, to a rib-joint funk master creating "soul jazz" with organists Baby Face Willette and Big John Patton. The wider audience Donaldson enjoyed after having a juke box hit in 1958 with the title track to Blues Walk inspired the bluesy follow-up albums Gravy Train (1961) and Good Gracious (1963). Alligator Boogaloo, Donaldson's second album after returning to Blue Note in 1967, produced two hit singles and received airplay on major R&B stations that usually didn't program jazz. This was followed by Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967), a blockbuster that also enjoyed a level of "crossover" success rare for a jazz album. The funky new sound Donaldson served up on these two albums, which feature organist Lonnie Smith, proved so successful that he never released another "acoustic" album for the label. Highlights from the saxophonist's second Blue Note tenure, which yielded 13 albums including Say It Loud (1968), Hot Dog (1969) and Everything I Play Is Funky (1970), are compiled on The Best of Lou Donaldson, Vol. II. .. -- Mitchell Feldman .. .. .... .. .. .. ...... Layout by ..CoolChaser.. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. ......
  • Members

    Lou Donaldson, Herman Foster, "Peck" Morrison, Art Blakey
  • Influences

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Lou Donaldson on HammondCast Show KYOU Radio...... .. .. .. .. ..
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  • Duo Session

    Warm jazzy feelings from Finland to you Lou ;D!

    Tuija and Tapani
    Duo Session

    4 years ago
  • Jean-Baptiste BOISNIER

    Merry Xmas...
    Thanks for your music
    JB
    www.noctamblues.com

    4 years ago
  • Hot House Florida

    Hello from Hot House Florida!
    We are blogging about YOU today. Looking forward to your visit to South Florida next month, and, you will be on the cover next month!

    4 years ago
  • Brooklyn Queen

    PEACE AND BLESSINGS TO YOU ALWAYS.
    MARIA

    4 years ago
  • Joseph Bradley

    JUST WANTED TO LEAVE SOME HOLIDAY LOVE GOD BLESS

    4 years ago
  • PIGSNOOTS

    Lets boogaloo!

    4 years ago
  • Joseph Bradley

    JUST SHOWING SOME LOVE TAKE CARE DEAR

    4 years ago
  • mr. confuse

    Please check out my new album
    "Feel The Fire" on DLP, CD & digital!

    Feel welcome to listen to it
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    peace
    Mr. Confuse

    4 years ago
  • Bluuwise 1

    God Bless and Lots of Love to The Incredible and Oh So Talented Lou Donaldson!!! Wishing You A Beautiful and Blessed Rest of your Week, Month, and Year!! Alicia Renee' (aka) "Blue Eyes*". Peace and Love.

    4 years ago
  • Joel Dasilva

    you are a god!

    4 years ago
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