Lou Donaldson (1971 Promo Vinyl LP VPI Cleaned Playtested BST-84370) Cosmos

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PROMO

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Lou Donaldson

Album Title: Cosmos

Featuring: Ed Williams, Melvin Sparks, Leon Spencer, Ray Armando, Jerry Jemmott, Idris Muhammad, Mildred Brown, Rosalyn Brown, Naomi Thomas

Produced By: George Butler

Catalogue Number: BST-84370

Year/Record Company: 1971 Blue Note Records

1 LP – Stereo - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This promo LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good

Shine: some

Scratches: several light & several feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)                                                                                      

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: minimal

LP Sound: very good (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: light                                                

Jacket Condition: very good

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: light (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none                                                                                  

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: “Not For Sale: Promotional” stamped on the front, upper right corner of jacket (see photos)

Sleeve Type: original blank sleeve, light wear; a new anti-static sleeve also included

Side One

The Caterpillar 6:50

Make It With You 4:57

If There’s Hell Below 9:03

Side Two

Caracas 8:24

I’ll Be There 5:24

When You’re Smiling The Whole World Smiles With You 5:18

Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is a jazz 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 era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro in the early 1940s. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was trained at the Great Lakes bases in Chicago where he was introduced to bop music in the lively club scene.

At the war's conclusion, he returned to Greensboro, where he worked club dates with the Rhythm Vets, a combo composed of A and T students who had served in the U.S. Navy. The band recorded the soundtrack to a musical comedy featurette, Pitch a Boogie Woogie, in Greenville, North Carolina, in the summer of 1947. The movie had a limited run at black audience theatres in 1948 but its production company, Lord-Warner Pictures, folded and never made another film. Pitch a Boogie Woogie was restored by the American Film Institute in 1985 and re-premiered on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville the following year. Donaldson and the surviving members of the Vets performed a reunion concert after the film's showing. In the documentary made on Pitch by UNC-TV, Boogie in Black and White, Donaldson and his musical cohorts recall the film's making—he originally believed that he had played clarinet on the soundtrack. A short piece of concert footage from a gig in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is included in the documentary.

Donaldson's first jazz recordings were with the Charlie Singleton Orchestra in 1950 and then with bop emissaries Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk in 1952, and he participated in several small groups with other jazz luminaries such as trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Horace Silver, and drummer Art Blakey.

In 1953, he also recorded sessions with the trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown, and Philly Joe Jones. He was a member of Art Blakey's Quintet and appeared on some of their best regarded albums, including the two albums recorded at Birdland in February 1954 Night at Birdland.

He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012. Also in 2012, he was named a NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. (source: Wikipedia)

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