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Donald Walden

Donald Walden, saxophonist/composer received the Jazz Master Award presented by Arts Midwest in 1996, making him one of six Detroit musicians to receive this award. Walden presently holds the position of Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Michigan where he's taught for the past 10 years.

Walden's career has included performances with a wide variety of of artists that include Dizzy Gillespie, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Aretha Franklin Hank and Elvin Jones.

Walden formed the Detroit Jazz Orchestra (DJO) in 1982 out of the need to develop a civic jazz orchestra to represent the city of Detroit

Geri's Dance - The Geri Allen Songbook, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 26, 2021

This week we celebrate the work of pianist Geri Allen whose contribution to the jazz world was cut short too early. The fruits of her legacy, however, have already been evident for some time. There are so many among today's pianists who are in their late 40s, from Jason Moran to Ethan Iverson, from Vijay Iyer ...

Donald Walden 'Kept Jazz Alive'

April 9, 2008

Focus

By Donald Walden

Label: Emanon Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Boperation; The Tadd Walk; Focus; Half Nelson / Lady Bird; If You Could See Me Now; Mating Call; Double Talk; A Bebop Carol; The Scene Is Clean; Our Delight (76:27).

Donald Walden and the Detroit Jazz Orchestra: Focus

by Jack Bowers
October 24, 2004

Before appraising the music on saxophonist Donald Walden's new album, Focus, we should first consider the “truth in advertising" issue. Webster's defines an orchestra as “a group of instrumentalists including especially string players [emphasis mine] organized to perform ensemble music." Walden's “orchestra" has no strings attached, and in fact is actually an octet. That's correct, a ...