◇ image via WikipediaLou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of The New Mastersounds and Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud. Those roots explain a lot about how Lou Donaldson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hank Mobley, Reuben Wilson, Horace Silver, Coleman Hawkins and Jack McDuff, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Speak Low, Charles Earland, Jamiroquai and Idris Muhammad, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Lou Donaldson, reaching back through The New Mastersounds and forward to Speak Low. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Lou Donaldson connections
Lou Donaldson grew out of The New Mastersounds and Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud, shares an orbit with Hank Mobley, Reuben Wilson, Horace Silver and Coleman Hawkins, went on to shape Speak Low, Charles Earland, Jamiroquai and Idris Muhammad. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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