Donald Walden
tenor saxophone
Detroit tenor saxophonist, one of the young players Barry says he brought up there; a younger Detroit musician remembers him later running a club, the New World Stage, where Barry played.
- mentions
- 4
- recordings
- 3
- Barry speaking
- 2
What Barry says
Describing how young Detroit players got to play alongside older ones, Barry names the young ones he knew: Brooks, Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer, Harry Whitaker and Donald Walden, among others.
Interview: Detroit and after4:04
Later in the same interview Barry says he had young players and made them play well, naming McPherson, Hillyer, Whitaker, Walden and a Jackson, before turning to the boys he had heard in Italy, who were 12 to 14 when he first heard them.
Interview: Detroit and after15:10
In his own words
I had some young cats and I made them play good. Charles McPherson, Lonnie [Hillyer], Harry Whitaker, Donald Walden, Ira Jackson, all these people, they play good.
Every mention
4 moments in the recordings, 2 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Interview: Detroit and after
Ali Jackson’s ’Bout It, episode 7
- 2:16
Someone else
The host says Walden (caption ‘donna wallin’) ran the New World Stage and invited his teenage band to sit in.
Ep. 20 | Charles McPherson: Meeting Charlie Parker, Studying with Barry Harris, and the Art of Bebop
- 0:00
Interviewer
The podcast host’s introduction lists Walden among the Detroit musicians Charles McPherson grew up alongside, Barry included.
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.