{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Color as a Way of Life | type = Album | artist = Lou Donaldson | cover = Color as a Way of Life.jpg | alt = | released = 1977 | recorded = December 1976 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 36:31 | label = Cotillion | producer = John Brantley, Rick Willard | chronology = Lou Donaldson | prev_title = A Different Scene | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = Sweet Poppa Lou | next_year = 1981 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r232258 Allmusic Review]</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''Color as a Way of Life''''' is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his second recorded for the Cotillion label, featuring Donaldson with an orchestra arranged by Mike Goldberg and Dennis Williams.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/lou-donaldson/catalog/#cotillion-sd-9915 Lou Donaldson discography] accessed December 16, 2009.</ref>
The album was awarded 2 stars in an Allmusic review.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r232258|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed December 16, 2009.</ref>
== Track listing == :''All compositions by Lou Donaldson except as indicated'' # "Too Much to Explain" (Al Broomfield) – 4:13 # "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:04 # "Piece of Your World" (Broomfield) – 4:32 # "Passion Fruit" (Donaldson, Johnny Brantley, Rick Willard) – 4:03 # "Comin' Thru the Back Door" (Broomfield) – 3:42 # "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) – 5:18 # "Maker's Dream" – 4:53 # "Walkin' Sally" – 4:46 ** Recorded at Groove Sound Studios, NYC, December, 1976.
== Personnel == * Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone * Paul G. Bogosian, Ernie Royal – trumpet, flugelhorn * John Drew Kelly – trombone, bass trombone * Seldon Powell – flute, baritone saxophone * Irving Spice – lead violin * Louis Haber, Elliott Rosoff, David Sackson, Louis Stone – violin * William Phipps – electric piano, clavinet * A.C. Drummer Jr. – guitar * Jacob Hunter – electric bass * Jimmy Young – drums * Jacqueline Copeland – vocals * Mike Goldberg – arranger, conductor * Dennis Williams – horn and string arranger
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Category:Lou Donaldson albums Category:1977 albums Category:Cotillion Records albums