Jazz LP LOU DONALDSON “Sunny Side Up” BLUE NOTE 4036 MONO W63 DG ear RVG NICE

$

339

Artist:   LOU DONALDSON

Title:   “Sunny Side Up”

Label:   BLUE NOTE  # BLP 4036.  Monaural pressing on medium thick vinyl. 

Label address on both sides is “BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC *47 WEST 63RD* NYC” .

“RVG” is stamped in the runout groove on both sides.   

Plastylite (“ear”) symbol is stamped in the runout groove on both sides.

Jacket address is as follows:  “For Complete Catalog Write to BLUE NOTE RECORDS, 47 West 63rd, NYC”

Year:  1960

Personnel:  

Lou Donaldson – alto sax

Bill Hardman – trumpet

Horace Parlan – piano

Sam Jones, Laymon Jackson – bass

Al Harewood - drums. 

Condition: 

DISC:  VG++ with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a few very slight “surface” scuffs but nothing serious or audible, nothing that interferes with the listening enjoyment on this remarkably clean LP.  Labels are clean except a few faint smudges on Side One label. 

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG+ with clean front and back panels.  Seams and spine are excellent.  Corners show moderate wear, and the reverse has darkened slightly with age.  There is a bit of smudging along spine edge.  The flaws are minor, and this is overall a very decent jacket to accompany the great sounding disc. 

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Blue for J.P.
• The Man I Love
• Politely
• It’s You or No One  

Side Two:

• The Truth
• Goose Grease
• Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

Review:

“Sunny Side Up is closer to hard bop than the straight-ahead bop that characterized Lou Donaldson's '50s Blue Note records.  There's a bit more soul to the songs here, which pianist Horace Parlan helps emphasize with his lightly swinging grooves.  The pair help lead the group -- which also features trumpeter Bill Hardman, drummer Al Harewood, and bassist Sam Jones (Laymon Jackson plays bass on two of the eight songs) -- through a mellow set of standards and bluesy originals from Donaldson and Parlan.  Even the uptempo numbers sound relaxed, never fiery.  Despite the general smoothness of the session, Donaldson stumbles a little -- the quotation of "Flight of the Bumblebee" on "Blues for J.P." is awkward, as is the snippet of "Pop Goes the Weasel" on "Politely," and "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" sounds lazy -- but there's enough solid material to make Sunny Side Up a worthwhile listen for fans of Donaldson and early-'60s hard bop.”

(courtesy Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com.)

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