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Don Aliquo

Steeped in Pittsburgh’s rich jazz tradition, saxophonist Don Aliquo grew up listening to and learning from jazz legends. Following in the footsteps of his father, a well-respected jazz artist himself, Don spent his formative years performing with many of the region’s greats including Joe Harris, Danny Conn Johnny Costa, David Budway, and Jeff Watts. His musical development continued at the Berklee College of Music, where he played in the International Dues Band directed by Phil Wilson. George Garzone, Joe Viola, Ed Tomasi and John La Porta were instrumental in his artistic growth at Berklee.

Don’s early professional career included tours as lead alto with the Tommy Dorsey Band directed by Buddy Morrow, and as a baritone saxophonist with the legendary drummer Buddy Rich. He also toured extensively with the East Coast R & B group, Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band, recording, writing horn arrangements, and performing as a soloist.

After these expanding and maturing experiences, Don’s career took two crucial turns. He began performing and recording with Roger Humphries, the legendary Horace Silver drummer, while furthering his musical development at Duquesne University.

Under the direction of master-composer John “Doc” Wilson, Don completed a master’s degree in performance summa cum laude, discovered a love for teaching as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and earned multiple honors and awards.

Growth

By Don Aliquo

Label: Ear Up Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Salt and Light; Woman Clothed in the Sun, Lower Broadway Rundown, Growth, Pedal Taverns, For the Vulnerable, Naked Statues, Blues for Duffy and Doug

Judith Owens, Earl Bostic & Don Aliquo

by Joe Dimino
March 12, 2023

From Nashville-based, Pittsburgh-bred saxophonist Don Aliquo, we kick off this new 793rd Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off his 2023 album Growth. From there, we listen to the artist who gave Don one of his most memorable performances when he was a lad in Arnie Lawrence. We also hear new music from Holly Burke, ...

Don Aliquo: Growth

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2023

On Growth, his eighth album as a leader, it is said that Nashville-based saxophonist Don Aliquo “pushes past his established comfort zone and into more precarious and challenging improvisational territory." While that may well be true, another truism is that the harmonic vocabulary of contemporary jazz has remained essentially unchanged for more than eight decades, and ...

Nashville Saxophonist/Composer Don Aliquo Expands His Creative Horizons With 'Growth,' Set For Feb. 17 Release On Ear Up Records

January 13, 2023

Saxophonist Don Aliquo lives up to the title of Growth—his eighth album, set for a February 17 release on Ear Up Records—with a trial by fire. Armed with his tenor sax and bass clarinet, as well as two venturesome, piano-less quartets, the Nashville area-based artist pushes past his established comfort zone and into more precarious and ...

Announcing 'The Innocence Of Spring' By Don Aliquo + Michael Jefry Stevens Live At Hinton Hall On The Arc Label

November 20, 2019

Announcing The Innocence Of Spring By Don Aliquo + Michael Jefry Stevens Live At Hinton Hall on the ARC Label. Recorded live at Middle Tennessee State University’s Hinton Hall, the release of The Innocence Of Spring (ARC-0736) brings together two veterans of the US jazz scene in saxophonist Don Aliquo and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens. In ...

Soul Serenade-The Gloria Lynne Project

By Diane Marino

Label: M&M Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT 4:35 Billy May / Milton Raskin / Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. / BMI 2. NOTHING EVER CHANGES MY LOVE FOR YOU 4:59 Jack Segal / Marvin Fischer / Fred Fischer / Sony / ATV Tunes LLC / ASCAP 3. SOUL SERENADE 4:34 Curtis Ousley / Luther Dixon / EMI Longitude Music / BMI 4. FOR YOU 3:30 Joe Burke /Al Dubin / Warner Bros Inc. / ASCAP 5. BLUE GARDENIA 5:07 Bob Russell / Lester Lee / Warner Bros & Harrison Music Group / ASCAP 6. THE JAZZ IN YOU 5:31 Chris Towns / Luther Dixon / Songs of Universal Inc. / BMI 7. HAPPY SHOES 4:33 Bobby Scott / Richard Alhert / Amber Leigh Music Inc. / ASCAP 8. SWEET PUMPKIN 3:47 Dr. Ronnell Bright / THGIRB Music / ASCAP 9. OUT OF THIS WORLD 4:05 Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer / Edwin Morris H Co Inc. / Chappell Morris ASCAP 10. SPEAKING OF HAPPINESS 3:52 Jimmy Radcliffe / Buddy Scott / Lucky Duck Music / Songs of Media Creature Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc. / BMI 11. THAT’S NO JOKE 4:08 Joe Bailey / Rightsong Music Inc. / BMI 12. HE NEEDS ME 4:57 Arthur Hamilton / Mark VII LTD / ASCAP 13. LET’S TAKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALK 3:27 Irving Berlin / Berlin Irving Music Corp / ASCAP 14. SERENADE IN BLUE 6:14 Harry Warren / Mack Gordon / Warner Bros Music Corp / ASCAP

The Jazz in You

April 14, 2018

Album: Soul Serenade-The Gloria Lynne Project
By Diane Marino
Label: M&M Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 05:31

Fathers and Sons

By Don Aliquo

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: But Not For Me; Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; Because He Lives; The Symbol of Priority; So Danco Samba; The September One; I Should Care; Fathers and Sons; Lush Live; Wendt's Bent.

"Richie Cole Plays Ballads & Love Songs," Cole's First Ballad Album In His 45-year Career, To Be Released Oct. 21

October 5, 2016

Setting down roots in Pittsburgh two years ago has borne fruit for alto saxophonist Richie Cole in the form of his beautiful new album, Richie Cole Plays Ballads & Love Songs. The CD, his first all-ballads album, will be released on his Richie Cole Presents imprint on October 21. “I don’t play the saxophone, I sing ...