Lou Donaldson: Midnight Creeper LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-59.2 pianist Frank Strazzeri

pianist Frank Strazzeri

The Magnificent Thad Jones is widely regarded as the greatest small group recording of the trumpeter and composer’s career

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singer Astrud Gilberto

Vick made his first Blue Note appearance in April 1963 on Patton’s Along Came John

Lou Donaldson: Midnight Creeper LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-59.2 pianist Frank StrazzeriBlue Note, 1968 Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson hadnt recorded for Blue Note since 1963 when he returned to the label in 1967 and began a new chapter in his lengthy career. Sweet Papa Lou had helped lay Blue Notes soul jazz foundation alongside Hammond B3 organists including Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, and Big John Patton going back to the late 1950s thru the early 60s on standout dates including his own Here Tis, Good Gracious!, and The Natural