Sweet Lou (album)

Sweet Lou is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his final recorded for the Blue Note label, featuring Donaldson with a big band arranged and conducted by Horace Ott.^[2]

Sweet Lou
Studio album by Lou Donaldson
Released	1974
Recorded	March 14, 19 & 21, 1974
Studio	Generation Sound, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Horace Ott & George Butler
Lou Donaldson chronology
Sassy Soul Strut (1973) Sweet Lou (1974) A Different Scene (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album was awarded 3 stars in an Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne who stated "the passing of time has been in some ways been kind to these efforts, blurring the original impression given of careers headed downhill. Donaldson's tone on alto saxophone, regardless of setting, sounds like Charlie Parker after he has spent the night stuffed into one of those jars of pickled eggs on the menu in particularly hardcore bars".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated

1. "You're Welcome, Stop On By" (Bobby Womack) – 3:55
2. "Lost Love" – 5:49
3. "Hip Trip" (Horace Ott) – 6:28
4. "If You Can't Handle It, Give It To Me" (Horace Ott) – 3:53
5. "Love Eyes" (Horace Ott) – 3:55
6. "Peepin'" (Lonnie Smith) – 6:14
7. "Herman's Mambo" (Herman Foster) – 4:36

• Recorded at Generation Sound Studios, NYC on March 14 (tracks 3–5), March 19 (tracks 2, 6 & 7) and March 21 (track 1), 1974.

Personnel

• Lou Donaldson – varitone alto saxophone
• Ernie Royal, Joe Shepley, Danny Moore – trumpet
• Garnett Brown – trombone
• Seldon Powell, Arthur Clarke – tenor saxophone, flute
• Buddy Lucas – harmonica
• Horace Ott – keyboards, synthesizer, arranger, conductor
• Paul Griffin – clavinet
• Hugh McCracken, David Spinozza, Cornell Dupree – electric guitar
• Wilbur Bascomb – electric bass
• Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Young – drums
• Unknown – percussion
• Barbara Massey, Hilda Harris, Eileen Gilbert, Carl Williams Jr., William Sample, Bill Davis, Eric Figueroa – vocals