Play the Right Thing
Play the Right Thing | ||||
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Studio album by Lou Donaldson | ||||
Released | 1991 | |||
Recorded | December 19–20, 1990 | |||
Studio | Giant Recording Studios | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 49:47 | |||
Label | Milestone | |||
Lou Donaldson chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Play the Right Thing is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his first recording for the Milestone label, featuring Donaldson with Lonnie Smith, Peter Bernstein, Bernard Purdie, and Ralph Dorsey.[2]
Reception
The album was awarded 3 stars in an Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell who states "As specifically indicated by the album's title, the title tune's bluesy cast, and Sweet Lou Donaldson's own determined liner notes, this CD aims to strike a blow for soul-jazz, a once-popular, then-maligned idiom newly returned from exile. That it does — with no frills, no apologies, and an idiomatic supporting cast... the CD achieves a comfortable level of competence without really grabbing hold of a groove and riding it the way Donaldson could in his Blue Note days".[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated
- "Play the Right Thing" – 6:24
- "Whiskey Drinkin' Woman" – 6:05
- "Marmaduke" (Charlie Parker) – 6:47
- "Harlem Nocturne" (Earle Hagen, Dick Rogers) – 5:50
- "This is Happiness" (Tadd Dameron) – 7:55
- "I Had the Craziest Dream" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 6:24
- "The Masquerade is Over" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:15
- "Footpattin' Time" – 6:07
- Recorded in New York City on December 19 & 29, 1990 by Malcolm Addey.
Personnel
- Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone, vocals
- Lonnie Smith – organ
- Peter Bernstein – guitar
- Bernard Purdie – drums
- Ralph Dorsey – congas
References
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- Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952)
- Wailing with Lou (1957)
- Swing and Soul (1957)
- Jimmy Smith Trio + LD (1957)
- Lou Takes Off (1957)
- Blues Walk (1958)
- Light-Foot (1958)
- LD + 3 (1959)
- The Time Is Right (1959)
- Sunny Side Up (1960)
- Midnight Sun (1960)
- Here 'Tis (1961)
- Gravy Train (1961)
- A Man With a Horn (1961)
- The Natural Soul (1962)
- Good Gracious! (1963)
- Signifyin' (1963)
- Possum Head (1964)
- Cole Slaw (1964)
- Rough House Blues (1964)
- Musty Rusty (1965)
- Blowing in the Wind (1966)
- Lou Donaldson at His Best (1966)
- Lush Life (1967)
- Alligator Bogaloo (1967)
- Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967)
- Midnight Creeper (1968)
- Say It Loud! (1968)
- Hot Dog (1969)
- Everything I Play Is Funky (1970)
- Pretty Things (1970)
- Cosmos (1971)
- Sophisticated Lou (1972)
- Sassy Soul Strut (1973)
- Sweet Lou (1974)
- A Different Scene (1976)
- Color as a Way of Life (1976)
- Sweet Poppa Lou (1981)
- Forgotten Man (1981)
- Back Street (1982)
- Play the Right Thing (1990)
- Birdseed (1992)
- Caracas (1993)
- Sentimental Journey (1995)
- Fried Buzzard (1965)
- The Scorpion (1970)
- Live in Bologna (1984)
- Relaxing at Sea: Live on the QE2 (2000)