Lou Donaldson JazzTimes Interview

[Brad]

Before & After with Lou Donaldson

Excerpts from an interview with Lou Donaldson. Some of his comments are biting.

 

[sonnymax]

5 minutes ago, Brad said:

Before & After with Lou Donaldson

Excerpts from an interview with Lou Donaldson. Some of his comments are biting.

 

Yeah, biting into a ham sammich. 

Edited November 1, 2022 by sonnymax

[Dan Gould]

8 minutes ago, sonnymax said:

Yeah, biting into a ham sammich. 

He never told Aric and friend what kind of sammich it was.

[Dub Modal]

On point about Marsalis. Also good comment on the Leo Gooden record - read & subsequently listened to that album after a write up about it on Jazz Wax. 

[felser]

10 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

On point about Marsalis. Also good comment on the Leo Gooden record - read & subsequently listened to that album after a write up about it on Jazz Wax. 

Marsalis is a very eloquent speaker, so I can understand the appeal of getting him as a talking head.   Wish his recorded work of the last 35 years was less self-consicously "eloquent".

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I wonder why they chose to play Binney's track "Solo" from "Third Occasion" instead of the title track? The album is streaming on bandcamp: https://davidbinney.bandcamp.com/album/third-occasion  I think the title track is pretty good. It's certainly not "free" and likely would not have gotten Lou all riled up.

[AllenLowe]

I gotta admit I love "he's searching....for a saxophone teacher."

[Dub Modal]

29 minutes ago, felser said:

Marsalis is a very eloquent speaker, so I can understand the appeal of getting him as a talking head.   Wish his recorded work of the last 35 years was less self-consicously "eloquent".

Guy must have the best publicist in the history of the genre. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

A thank you to this thread as it allowed me to discover that David Binney put out a CD of all ambient music called "Where Infinity Begins" this past March. I enjoy playing ambient music on the headphones while I'm working and this one was worth picking up after listening to it via bandcamp.

[Brad]

4 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

On point about Marsalis. Also good comment on the Leo Gooden record - read & subsequently listened to that album after a write up about it on Jazz Wax. 

Here’s the JazzWax article.

https://www.jazzwax.com/2015/11/oliver-nelson-and-leo-gooden.html

[Gheorghe]

I don´t care so much for all that stuff Lou Donaldson said on stage, and dissing Free Jazz and so, but as a player, he is  really a teacher. You listen to his phrasings, and very much of the stuff is really right so you don´t have to let him say all his stuff, you better listen or listened when learning, and find the answer in his playing. He got it all, the sound, the rhythmic approach, the phrasings, the knowledge of harmony and all. 

[Dub Modal]

Revisiting the article, he's essentially saying Mulligan played without feeling and perhaps had a compromised sound. Is that a common, at least among musicians, sentiment toward Mulligan? I've never heard anything like that aimed at GM before. 

[danasgoodstuff]

It's hardly surprising that Lou would prefer Pepper Adams to Mulligan.

[jlhoots]

Lou's always been "cranky". Fun to hear his bitching in person.