Marc Myers – JazzWax: You helped invent hard bop, yet you’re not on many of the big hard-bop recordings. Why not?
Lou Donaldson: I got pissed off at the musicians coming to the dates. The drug thing was bad then. A lot of musicians would come into Blue Note’s offices and owner Alfred Lion would take them back to his room. When they came out, they’d sober up. I said to Alfred, “I’m not going to make any more dates with these junkies you bring in here. They want to get high and come back and mess up a record».
Lou Donaldson (1926-2024) In Memoriam
Cita tomada de la entrevista de Marc Myers en el imprescindible blog JazzWax a Lou Donaldson en 2010. https://www.jazzwax.com/2010/06/interview-lou-donaldson-part-3
Fotografía tomada por Joan Cortès el 1 de agosto de 2013 en la sala Jamboree de Barcelona, correspondiente a la undécima edición del Festival Mas i Mas.
Texto: © Marc Myers, JazzWax, 2008
Fotografías: © Joan Cortès, 2024
