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Cosmos (Lou Donaldson album)

album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ5174585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cosmos is an album by the jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label, featuring Donaldson with Ed Williams, Leon Spencer, Melvin Sparks, Jerry Jemmott, Idris Muhammad and Ray Armando, with vocals by Mildred Brown, Rosalyn Brown and Naomi Thomas, arranged by Jimmy Briggs.

Reception

The album was awarded 1 star in an Allmusic review.

Track listing

All compositions by Lou Donaldson except where noted

"The Caterpillar" – 6:50

"Make It with You" (David Gates) – 4:57

"If There's Hell Below (We're All Going To Go)" (Curtis Mayfield) – 9:03

"Caracas" – 8:24

"I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch) – 5:24

"When You're Smiling" (Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, Mark Fisher) – 5:18

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on July 16, 1971.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cosmos (Lou Donaldson album)” is album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cosmos, Donaldson and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971. For this dossier, Cosmos, Donaldson and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5174585. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cosmos (Lou Donaldson album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.