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Lou Donaldson: Lou Donaldson: Alligator Bogaloo – Blue Note 4263 album review by Marc Davis, published on February 24, 2015. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!
Lou Donaldson: The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-1960 album review by C. Andrew Hovan, published on April 2, 2003. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!
In a stretch of Blue Note albums throughout the 1950s, '60s and even early '70s, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, now 87, emblematized the hard bop and soul jazz that we now consider "straight ...
Donaldson explored new dimensions in the emergent form of soul jazz for the latter half of his 27-album run with Blue Note, which helped him to connect with a wider audience and sustain jazz as a ...
Out Feb. 11, In The Blue Light is a live album capturing Kelela's intimate, unplugged performances at New York City's Blue Note jazz club.
Blue Note Jazz Festival has announced upcoming performances for June 15-18th for its LATE NIGHTS, BRUNCH & MONDAY NIGHT.
Recently confirmed collaborations include: jazz icons Lou Donaldson with Dr. Lonnie Smith (Blue Note Jazz Club, June 10-11); "Sly Reimagined" - a special project with Global Noize interpreting the ...
The album starts with trumpeter Yazz Ahmed’s complex, tempo-changing cover of the late Chick Corea’s “It” — first released in 1969 on Solid State and reissued on Blue Note in 2002 ...
Kelela Covers Joni Mitchell on ‘In The Blue Light’ Live Album Recorded at NYC’s Blue Note Jazz Club The acclaimed singer-songwriter also dropped a single to introduce the project.