Austrian pianist-composer Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) was celebrated as brilliant and criticized as an enfant terrible. On the albums title piece, Donau So Blue two seasoned jazz musicians, bassist Hans Rettenbacher and drummer Manfred Josel accompany Gulda. His scurrilous texts also featured on this somewhat bizarre spoken word MPS production are reminiscent of the works of Viennese actor-cabarettist Helmut Qualtinger and Austrian-American cabarettist- composer Georg Kreisler. And who was the singer Albert Golowin? He was actually a pseudonym Gulda used for singing performances. Gulda felt himself to be an outsider in the jazz world. He was a renowned Mozart and Beethoven interpreter, but did not want to be tied down to the world of classical music. His antipathy towards the concert establishment drove the piano virtuoso into the jazz scene. He played with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, and Rolf Kühn.