Also, in 2012, he was named an NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. He was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame on October 11, 2012.
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. In 1953, he recorded sessions with the trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown and Philly Joe Jones. He participated in several small groups with other jazz luminaries such as trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Horace Silver, and drummer Art Blakey. The band recorded the soundtrack to a musical comedy featurette, Pitch a Boogie Woogie, in Greenville, North Carolina, in the summer of 1947.ĭonaldson's first jazz recordings were with the Charlie Singleton Orchestra in 1950 and then with bop emissaries Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk in 1952.
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 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. He started playing the saxophone at 15 he attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro in the early 1940s. Louis Donaldson was born in Badin, North Carolina. AGRESSOR continued to spearhead the French extreme metal scene with their following release as well as through touring with such renowned acts as MORBID ANGEL, OBITUARY, PESTILENCE, BIOHAZARD, SINISTER, and WARGASM.*Lou Donaldson was born on this date in 1926. Their sophomore full-length, Towards Beyond (1992) was produced by Börje "Boss" Forsberg of BATHORY and Black Mark fame and came with ultra-heavy passages on top of their trademark technical riffing. A year later, the band began cooperating with Philippe Druillet for the visuals of their debut album, Neverending Destiny, which received a warm welcome with its combination of brutal thrash riffing and what would now be considered an early form of technical death metal. to 200 copies)ĪGRESSOR became the first French metal act to be signed by an international label after recording the demo, Orbital Distortion in 1989.
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