{{short description|American jazz trumpeter and bandleader}} {{Not to be confused with|Don Albert & Partners}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Don Albert | image = Ken Donalbert.jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = Albert Dominique | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|08|05}} | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, US | death_date = January 1980 | death_place = San Antonio, Texas | origin = | instrument = Trumpet | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, bandleader | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY --> | label = | website = }} '''Albert Dominique''', better known as '''Don Albert''' (August 5, 1908, New Orleans – January 1980, San Antonio, Texas) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |last=Koch |first=Lawrence |date=2003 |title=Albert, Don [Dominique, Albert] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J005200 }}</ref>

Albert's uncle was Natty Dominique.<ref name="AM">{{cite web |last=Chadbourne |first=Eugene |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-albert-mn0001663666 |title=Don Albert |website=AllMusic |access-date=February 24, 2021}}</ref> He got his start playing in parade brass bands in New Orleans at the beginning of the 1920s.<ref name="AM" /> He toured with the territory band of Alphonse Trent in 1925,<ref name="Grove" /> then played with Troy Floyd at the Shadowland Ballroom in San Antonio from 1926 to 1929.<ref name="AM" />

Albert led his own territory bands out of Texas in the 1930s and 1940s, with sidemen that included Alvin Alcorn, Louis Cottrell, Jr., and Herb Hall.<ref name="Grove" /> After 1932 he acted more in a manager's capacity than as a performer.<ref name="AM" /> His bands played in Mexico and Canada, and won positive reviews from newspapers, but recorded only eight sides.<ref name="AM" /> He disbanded this group around 1937 due to economic conditions, and found work in civil service and managing a nightclub called the Keyhole Club in San Antonio in the early and mid-1940s; his club was shut down in 1948 by local authorities.<ref name="AM" /> In 1950, he opened a second location at 1619 West Poplar.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Garcia|first=Juan|date=2014-11-30|title=An Eastside Story: Don Albert and The Keyhole Club|url=https://sanantonioreport.org/eastside-story-don-albert-dominique-keyhole-club/|access-date=2021-11-18|website=San Antonio Report|language=en-US}}</ref> He led a group at the Palace Theater in New York in 1949.<ref name="AM" />

In the 1950s he continued performing part-time, playing in small groups into the 1970s.<ref name="Grove" /><ref name="AM" /> He recorded again in the 1960s and appeared at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 1969.<ref name="AM" />

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==Further reading== *Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p.&nbsp;9.

==External links== *Interviews with Don Albert, [https://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15125coll4/id/519 January 15-18, 1980], [https://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15125coll4/id/551 February 1-8, 1980], University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collection, UA 15.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections. {{Authority control}}

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