Donaldson, Lou (Personal Name)

Live Messengers [SR] p1978 (a.e.) container (Lou Donaldson, alto saxophone)

New Grove dict. of jazz (Donaldson, Lou; b. Nov. 1, 1926, Badin, NC; alto saxophonist and singer)

African American National Biography , accessed December 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Donaldson, Lou; jazz musician, saxophonist; born 01 November 1926 in Badin, North Carolina, United States; attended Greensboro A & T College, earning a degree in Science; worked in a dance band led by saxophonist Billy Tolles; recorded extensively in bop-oriented settings; recorded as a leader for the Blue Note label, one in which he was accompanied by the Modern Jazz Quartet (1952); spent nearly his entire career after 1952 as a bandleader; awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by North Carolina A & T University; received the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award for 2013)