Artist
Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson is a jazz artist from American. 82 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · American · Best jazz albums
- 82
- Releases
- 1957–2026
- Active years
Discography
82
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Alligator Bogaloo
1967 · 6 tracks
Midnight Creeper
1968
Mr. Shing-A-Ling
1967
Hot Dog
1969
Lush Life
1967
Blues Walk
1958
Pretty Things
1970
Possum Head
1964
Rough House Blues
1966
Here 'Tis
1961
The Time Is Right
1959
The Blue Note Years
2026
The Best Of Lou Donaldson (Vol. 1 1957-1967)
2026
Iridium Jazz Club (Live New York '95)
2025
A Man With A Horn
2025
Essential Classics, Vol. 882: Lou Donaldson
2025
INTEGRAL Lou Donaldson 1952 - 1962
2025
Late Night Lou Donaldson
2024
Four Classic Albums (The 3 Sounds / Feelin' Good / Moods / Ld+3) (2024 Digitally Remastered)
2024
Got My Bag (Live New York '95)
2024
Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo de Lou Donaldson
2023
New Faces - New Sounds
2023
JazzOmatic
2023
Glory of Love
2023
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Lou Donaldson
2023
Blue Notes III, Vol. 5
2021
The Natural Soul
2021
Signifyin'
2020
Lou Selection
2020
Jazz Infusion - Lou Donaldson
2020
Jazz Masters - Lou Donaldson, Vol. 1
2020
Jazz Masters - Lou Donaldson, Vol. 2
2020
Sunny Side up (2018 Digitally Remastered)
2018
Good Gracious!
2018
A Foggy Day
2017
Quartet / Quintet / Sextet
2017
Fried Buzzard (Live At Bon Ton Club, Buffalo/1965)
2017
Sophisticated Lou
2017
Cosmos
2017
Blowing In The Wind
2017
Gravy Train
2017
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Four Classic Albums (Blues Walk / Gravy Train / Lou Takes Off / Here 'Tis) [Remastered]
2017
Best Of - 50 Tracks
2016
Sweet Lou
2014
Sassy Soul Strut
2014
Fourteen Classic Albums: 1953-1962
2014
Light-Foot
2014
Down Home
2014
Modern Jazz- The World's Greatest Jazz Collection, Vol. 38
2013
LD + 3
2012
The Essence Of Modern Jazz CD 2
2012
Greatest Jazz Masters
2012
Wailing
2012
The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions 1957-60
2012
Say It Loud
2011
Essential Jazz Masters
2011
Avalon
2011
Original Jazz Sound: Wailing with Lou
2011
The Ultimate Jazz Archive (Vol. 31)
2010
The Scorpion (Live At The Cadillac Club/1970)
2009
Callin' All Cats
2009
Strollin' In
2009
Lou's Blues
2007
Jazz Figures / Lou Donaldson (1952-1954)
2007
Birdseed
2007
The Ultimate Jazz Archive 31 (1 Of 4)
2007
Caracas
2006
A Different Scene
2006
Color As A Way Of Life
2006
The Artist Selects
2005
The Best Of Lou Donaldson (Vol. 2)
2003
Wailing With Lou
2000
Blue Break Beats
1998
Everything I Play Is Funky
1995
Poinciana
1979
At His Best
1966
Musty Rusty
1965
Cole Slaw
1964
Sunny Side Up
1960
Jimmy Smith Trio + LD
1957
Swing and Soul
1957
Lou Takes Off
1957
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About
Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. 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. Donaldson attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro 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 there. 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.
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"Pitch a Boogie Woogie" was subsequently 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", 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. 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, and he participated in several small groups with other jazz luminaries such as trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Horace Silver, and drummer Art Blakey. 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. Donaldson has recorded in the bop, hard bop, and soul jazz genres. For many years his pianist was Herman Foster. He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.
Lou Donaldson in brief
- How many Lou Donaldson releases are on Riffiter?
- 82 releases are catalogued, spanning 1957 to 2026.
- What genre is Lou Donaldson?
- Lou Donaldson is catalogued under Jazz.
- What is the most recent Lou Donaldson release on Riffiter?
- The Blue Note Years, released in 2026.