Enter Lou Donaldson. If there were a godfather of soul-jazz, Donaldson would be it. He was playing a funky alto sax long before Alligator Bogaloo , back in the hard-bop days of the 1950s, sometimes ...

Jazz album: “The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-1960” by Lou Donaldson, released in 2003 on Mosaic Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz. All ...

Blue Note Jazz Festival has announced upcoming performances for June 15-18th for its LATE NIGHTS, BRUNCH & MONDAY NIGHT. Summer Theatre Guide: Email: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials ...

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-ahead." ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson.

Blue Note Entertainment Group has announced lineup additions for the 2014 Blue Note Jazz Festival, scheduled to take place Sunday, June 1 through Monday, June 30, with over 150 performances at ...

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 ...