Lou Donaldson in Vienna

[Gheorghe]

Yesterday I went to see Lou Donaldson at "Porgy and Bess", the great Viennese club.

Didn´t expect much from Lou, it´s natural he slowed down but I must admit he really played much more then I thought he´d be able to do.

He still has his message and a lot of his licks from the great BN Years.

Great musicians: Randy Johnson on guitar has played with him for a long time, I love the way he plays.

The big surprise for me was Akiko Tsuruga on organ. The lady really cooks !

And I think I heard the great japanese drummer Fushuki Tainaka on other occasions.

Of course the same tunes that anybody knows who has listened to Lou, but anyway it was really fun and we all enjoyed that wonderful evening.

[Hardbopjazz]

You gotta love Lou. I've seen him 15 times at least.

Let me take a guess at the set list.

Blues Walk

Wee

What a Wonderful World

Fast and Freaky 8:06,

It Was a Dream or Whisky Drinking Woman

Alligator

Bye Bye Black Bird

I only wish he would change the set list. Lou can still play real fine. I also wish he would play with a pianist and bassist from time to time.

[AllenLowe]

and apparently they've reissued Hot Dog in a special German edition with a new title: Wiener Schnitzel.

[CJ Shearn]

Akiko is wonderful!

[etherbored]

i second that.

[king ubu]

and apparently they've reissued Hot Dog in a special German edition with a new title: Wiener Schnitzel.

Yeah, but you'll only get one if you publicly abjure from ever again listening to avantgarde ... and if you violate your word, you'll be made into ... guess what? Takes quite some beating!

[CJ Shearn]

[Gheorghe]

You gotta love Lou. I've seen him 15 times at least.

Let me take a guess at the set list.

Blues Walk

Wee

What a Wonderful World

Fast and Freaky 8:06,

It Was a Dream or Whisky Drinking Woman

Alligator

Bye Bye Black Bird

I only wish he would change the set list. Lou can still play real fine. I also wish he would play with a pianist and bassist from time to time.

Right !

From Blues Walk to Alligator Boogaloo it was the first set.

After intermission, they started with Bye Bye Black Bird (with the eternal introduction "made famous by Miles Davis when he still played jazz")

Then followed "Cherokee", "body and Soul", after that there was a feature for Randy Johnson "Beautiful Love", and one for Akiko Tsuruba "Mack the knife", then the quartet again with "Gravy Train".

Two encores: "Midnite Creeper" and another vocal blues "It was just a dream".