Discography

About Don’s New Album “Growth”

GROWTH pushes the envelope with open, edgy original compositions featuring 2 piano-less quartets that display Aliquo’s work in a freer harmonic setting. The record reflects Don’s personal growth in tandem to the growth of Nashville.

Listen to "Growth" on Apple Music

Don’s Discography

  • Growth

    2025

    Label: Ear Up Records

    Rod McGaha (tp), Steve Kovalcheck (g), Jonathan Wires/Jacob Jezioro (b), Marcus Finnie/Danny Gottlieb (dr)

    8th album; piano-less; all originals; debut on Ear Up

  • Sun & Shield

    Label: Artists Recording Collective

    Jim McNeely (p), Rufus Reid (b), Obed Calvaire (dr)

    5th solo release; Aliquo's debut as jazz clarinetist

    Features Aliquo’s work on saxophone and clarinet with a stellar lineup: Rufus Reid, Jim McNeely and Obed Calvaire

  • Jazz Folk

    2006
    Is a “tribute to the jazz life and the musicians who have lived it.”  The recording features Don Aliquo originals, three pieces from bassist Rufus Reid, and two modern standards in primarily quintet format.


    Clay Jenkins (tp), Dana Landry (p), Rufus Reid (b), Jim White (dr)

    4 Aliquo originals, 3 Rufus Reid pieces, 2 standards

Don’s Collaborative Discography

  • The Innocence of Spring

    2019

    The Innocence of Spring is a live duo recording with enigmatic pianist Michael Jefry Stevens. The two engage in set of compelling jazz “conversations consisting of originals and works by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk”

  • Fathers & Sons

    2017

    Fathers and Sons features Don with his legendary father Don Aliquo Sr. in musical settings with other Pittsburgh father and son combinations including Dr. James Johnson and James Johnson III and Bennie Benack and his father “Peek” Benack.The album blends generations of musical mentorship and camaraderie

  • Too Marvelous for Words

    2015
    Too Marvelous for Words features Aliquo with celebrated pianist Beegie Adair with her trio in a recording she described as “the jazz record I have always wanted to make”

    Label: Adair Music Group

    Beegie Adair (p), Roger Spencer (b), Chris Brown (dr)

  • Chicken on the Hill

    2014

    Chicken on the Hill is a collaborative reunion of musicians united by a shared history — Don, bassist Dwayne Dolphin, and pianist David Budway — all of whom spent their formative years playing with the legendary drummer Roger Humphries. 

  • New Ties and Binds

    2015

    A creative collaboration with Clay Jenkins, Rufus Reid, Jim White and Harold Danko.

    From critic Raul da Gama “These are not “comfortable” performances. They pass on cosmetic appeal and would rather grate and rail than pander to surface “gloss”. But they are profoundly beautiful in their truthful appropriation of music that can be both poignant and aggressive.”