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Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926)[1] is an American retired jazz alto saxophonist. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.[1]

Lou Donaldson
Donaldson in 2015
Background information
Born	(1926-11-01) November 1, 1926 (age 96) Badin, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres	Bebop hard bop jazz blues soul jazz
Occupation(s)	Bandleader composer saxophonist
Instrument(s)	Alto saxophone
Years active	1952–2017
Website	loudonaldson.com

Life and career

Donaldson was born in Badin, North Carolina, United States.[2] He attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro[3] in the early 1940s. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was trained at the Great Lakes bases in Chicago where he was introduced to bop music in the lively club scene.

At the war's conclusion, he returned to Greensboro, where he worked club dates with the Rhythm Vets, a combo composed of A and T students who had served in the U.S. Navy. The band recorded the soundtrack to a musical comedy featurette, Pitch a Boogie Woogie, in Greenville, North Carolina, in the summer of 1947. The movie had a limited run at black audience theatres in 1948 but its production company, Lord-Warner Pictures, folded and never made another film. Pitch a Boogie Woogie was restored by the American Film Institute in 1985 and re-premiered on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville the following year. Donaldson and the surviving members of the Vets performed a reunion concert after the film's showing. In the documentary made on Pitch by UNC-TV, Boogie in Black and White,[4] Donaldson and his musical cohorts recall the film's making—he originally believed that he had played clarinet on the soundtrack. A short piece of concert footage from a gig in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is included in the documentary.[5]

Donaldson's first jazz recordings were with the Charlie Singleton Orchestra in 1950 and then with bop emissaries Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk in 1952,[6] and he participated in several small groups with other prominent jazz musicians such as trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Horace Silver, and drummer Art Blakey.[1]

In 1953, he also recorded sessions with the trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown, and Philly Joe Jones. He was a member of Art Blakey's Quintet and appeared on some of their best regarded albums, including the two albums recorded at Birdland in February 1954 Night at Birdland.[7]

He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.[8] Also in 2012, he was named a NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.[9]

In 2018, he declared himself retired, having performed his final shows in 2017. On November 2, 2021, he made a public appearance at a 95th birthday tribute show at Dizzy’s Club.

Discography

References

External links

• Official site
• NEA Jazz Master Lou Donaldson
• All About Jazz

Signature tunes

• Blues Walk (1958) on YouTube
• Alligator Bogaloo (1967) on YouTube
• Whiskey Drinkin' Woman (2014 live) on YouTube

На других языках

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[de] Lou Donaldson

Louis Andrew Donaldson[1] (* 1. November 1926 in Badin, North Carolina) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Altsaxophonist, Bandleader und Komponist. In seiner über 60-jährigen Karriere spielte er u. a. mit Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith und George Benson. Musiker wie Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Ray Barretto, Grant Green, Big John Patton, Lonnie Smith, Blue Mitchell und Donald Byrd machten ihre ersten Plattenaufnahmen mit Donaldson.

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- [en] Lou Donaldson

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[es] Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson (Badin, Carolina del Norte, 1 de noviembre de 1926) es un saxofonista (alto) estadounidense de jazz.

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[ru] Дональдсон, Лу

Лу До́нальдсон (англ. Lou Donaldson; 1 ноября 1926 (1926-11-01), Бейдин, Северная Каролина) — американский джазовый альт-саксофонист, представитель музыкальных стилей бибопа, соул-джаза, фанка, ритм-энд-блюза. Он был первым саксофонистом, который в своем творчестве совмещал бибоп, фанк, джаз-фанк и ритм-энд-блюз. До начала своей успешной карьеры он записывался с Charlie Singleton Orchestra[1].

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