Alligator Bogaloo
Context
Title track improvised on a riff to fill three missing minutes of the session, whose success surprised Donaldson. The album, with Lonnie Smith on organ and George Benson on guitar, was his first record to chart on Billboard in four years.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.