Live in Bologna (Lou Donaldson album)

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Live in Bologna
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Live album by Lou Donaldson
Released 1984
Recorded January 1984
Genre Jazz
Label Timeless
Lou Donaldson chronology
Back Street
(1982)		Live in Bologna
(1984)		 Play the Right Thing
(1990)
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Live in Bologna is a live album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his second recording for the Timeless label, featuring Donaldson's quartet with Herman Foster, Jeff Fuller, and Victor Jones. [2]

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Lou Donaldson American saxophonist

Lou Donaldson is a 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.

Timeless Records is a jazz record label based in The Netherlands.

Contents

Reception

The album was awarded 3 stars in an Allmusic review by Steven Loewy who stated "the set as a whole has a joyous and even infectious exuberance that should provide an enjoyable, if light, listening experience". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated
  1. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 9:26
  2. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 8:30
  3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 9:05
  4. "Lou's Blues" - 9:21
  5. "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) - 6:11
  6. "Star Eyes" (Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 11:45
  • Recorded in Bologna, Italy in January, 1984.

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Herman Foster was an American bebop jazz pianist.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Lou Donaldson discography accessed December 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ Loewy, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 16, 2009.
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