Lou Takes Off

Lou Takes Off
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1958
RecordedDecember 15, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, NJ
GenreJazz
Length38:17
LabelBlue Note
BLP 1591
ProducerAlfred Lion
Lou Donaldson chronology
Jimmy Smith Trio + LD
(1957)
Lou Takes Off
(1958)
Blues Walk
(1958)

Lou Takes Off is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded on December 15, 1957 and released on Blue Note the following year. The sextet features brass section Donald Byrd and Curtis Fuller and rhythm section Sonny Clark, Jamil Nasser and Art Taylor.