''Blues Walk'' is an album by jazz saxophonist
Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is an American retired jazz Alto saxophone, 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 ...
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It has been considered Donaldson's "undisputed masterpiece".
[ Huey, Steve. allmusic/ref> The title track by Donaldson is not to be confused with Clifford Brown's 1954 composition " The Blues Walk".
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Track listing
# "Blues Walk" (Donaldson) 6:44
# "Move" (Denzil Best
Denzil DaCosta Best (April 27, 1917 – May 24, 1965) was an American jazz percussionist and composer born in New York City. He was a prominent bebop drummer in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Biography
Best was born in New York City, into a musi ...
) 5:54
# "The Masquerade Is Over" (Herb Magidson
Herbert A. Magidson (January 7, 1906 – January 2, 1986) was an American popular lyricist. His work was used in over 23 films and four Broadway revues. He won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934.
Life and career
Magidson was bo ...
, Allie Wrubel
Elias Paul "Allie" Wrubel (January 15, 1905 – December 13, 1973) was an American composer and songwriter.
Biography
Wrubel was born to a Jewish family in Middletown, Connecticut, United States, the son of Regina (née Glasscheib) and Isaac ...
) 5:54
# "Play Ray" (Donaldson) 5:32
# "Autumn Nocturne" (Josef Myrow Josef Myrow (February 18, 1910 – December 24, 1987 in Los Angeles, California) was a Russian Empire-born composer, known for his work in film scores in the 1940s and 1950s. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award: in 1947 for the song "You Do ...
, Kim Gannon
James Kimball "Kim" Gannon (November 18, 1900 – April 29, 1974) was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer.
Biography
Gannon was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish-American family from Fort Ann in upstate New ...
) 4:55
# "Callin' All Cats" (Donaldson) 5:15
Personnel
* Lou Donaldson - alto saxophone
* Herman Foster
Herman Foster (April 26, 1928 – April 3, 1999) was an American bebop jazz pianist.
He was blinded during childbirth through the carelessness of a doctor. He began his musical career early playing the violin, clarinet, saxophone, and piano. ...
- piano
* Peck Morrison
John A. "Peck" Morrison (September 11, 1919 – February 25, 1988) was an American jazz bassist.
Morrison was classically trained, and was competent on trumpet and percussion in addition to bass. He played in military bands in Italy during World ...
- bass
* Dave Bailey - drums
* Ray Barretto
Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Lati ...
- congas
Other credits
* Cover Photo: Francis Wolff
Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label.
Care ...
* Recording by: Rudy Van Gelder
Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theloni ...
* Liner notes: Ira Gitler
Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'' with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of ...
Charts
References
External links
The Hard Bop Homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blues Walk
1958 albums
Lou Donaldson albums
Blue Note Records albums
Albums produced by Alfred Lion
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio