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Released
  
1974

Release date
  
1974

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Lou Donaldson

Label
  
Blue Note Records

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Recorded
  
March 14, 19 & 21, 1974

Producer
  
Horace Ott & George Butler

Sweet Lou (1974)
  
A Different Scene (1976)

Similar
  
Lou Donaldson albums, Jazz albums

Sweet Lou is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his final recorded for the Blue Note label, featuring Donaldson with a big band arranged and conducted by Horace Ott.

Contents

The album was awarded 3 stars in an Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne who stated "the passing of time has been in some ways been kind to these efforts, blurring the original impression given of careers headed downhill. Donaldson's tone on alto saxophone, regardless of setting, sounds like Charlie Parker after he has spent the night stuffed into one of those jars of pickled eggs on the menu in particularly hardcore bars".

Track listing

All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated
  1. "You're Welcome, Stop On By" (Bobby Womack) - 3:55
  2. "Lost Love" - 5:49
  3. "Hip Trip" (Don Patterson) - 6:28
  4. "If You Can't Handle It, Give It To Me" - 3:53
  5. "Love Eyes" (Moose Charlap, Norman Gimbel) - 3:55
  6. "Peepin'" (Lonnie Smith) - 6:14
  7. "Herman's Mambo" (Herman Foster) - 4:36
  • Recorded at Generation Sound Studios, NYC on March 14 (tracks 3-5), March 19 (tracks 2, 6 & 7) and March 21 (track 1), 1974.

    • Personnel

  • Lou Donaldson - varitone alto saxophone
  • Ernie Royal, Joe Shepley, Danny Moore - trumpet
  • Garnett Brown - trombone
  • Seldon Powell, Arthur Clarke - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Buddy Lucas - harmonica
  • Horace Ott - keyboards, synthesizer, arranger, conductor
  • Paul Griffin - clavinet
  • Hugh McCracken, David Spinozza, Cornell Dupree - electric guitar
  • Wilbur Bascomb - electric bass
  • Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Young - drums
  • Unknown - percussion
  • Barbara Massey, Hilda Harris, Eileen Gilbert, Carl Williams Jr., William Sample, Bill Davis, Eric Figueroa - vocals

    • Songs

    1You're Welcome - Stop OnBobby Womack - Truman Thomas3:55
    2Lost Love5:49
    3Hip TripHorace Ott6:28

    References

    Sweet Lou (album) Wikipedia
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