Boxset / Compilation · 1957
Tracklist
A1 If I Love Again
A2 Down Home
A3 The Best Things In Life Are Free
A4 Lou's Blues
A5 Cheek To Cheek
A6 Sweet Juice
B1 The Stroller
B2 Roccus
B3 Caracas
B4 Moe's Bluff
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson
Bass – Gene Ramey (tracks: A4, A5, B2), Percy Heath (tracks: A1-A3, A6, B1, B3, B4)
Drums – Art Blakey (tracks: A1-A3, A6, B1, B3, B4), Arthur Taylor (tracks: A4, A5, B2)
Piano – Elmo Hope (tracks: B1, B3, B4), Horace Silver (tracks: A1-A6, B2)
Trombone – Matthew Gee (tracks: B1, B3, B4)
Trumpet – Blue Mitchell (tracks: A1-A3, A6), Kenny Dorham (tracks: B1, B3, B4)
About this release
Blue Note – BLP 1537 (US)
Reissued in 1969 as "Down Home"(Sunset Records – SUS-5258,US)
Recorded at WOR Studios on June 20 (A4, A5, B2) and November 19 (A1-A3, A6), 1952.
Recorded at RVG Studio, Hackensack on August 22, 1954 (B1, B3, B4).
Contains "New Faces – New Sounds"(1953) and "Lou Donaldson Sextet Volume 2"(1954) material
Thanks to snobb for the addition