Don Donaldson

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Don Donaldson (* around 1910 , † after 1959 ) was an American jazz pianist and arranger .

Live and act

Donaldson, who came from Cape Cod , played as a pianist in the early 1940s for Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feetwarmers, on whose recordings for Victor Records and V-Disc he was involved. During this time he was also active as an arranger and worked a. a. with Louis Prima and Fats Waller , for whom he wrote an arrangement on Gershwin's I Got Rhythm and also served as the director of his studio big band. In 1934 Waller toured with Don Donaldson's orchestra. In 1959 he still worked with the jazz singer Debby Moore ( My Kind of Blues ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lecture by Dan Morgenstern, Cape Cod Community College ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 2002  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nejazz.org
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (online)
  3. ↑ Don Donaldson at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ Paul S Machlin: Stride: The Music of Fats Waller , P. 82
  5. ^ David Dicaire, Jazz musicians of the early years, to 1945, McFarland Publ. 2003, p. 108
  6. ^ Portrait of Debby Moore on Fresh Sound Records
  7. ↑ St. Augustine native talks jazz career in the big city
personal data
SURNAME Donaldson, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, arranger and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH after 1959