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Released
  
1977

California Hard(1976)
  
Third Down(1977)

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Xanadu Records

Recorded
  
December 27, 1976

Artist
  
Dolo Coker

Producer
  
Don Schlitten

Genre
  
Hard bop

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California Hard is a jazz album by pianist and composer Dolo Coker, recorded in 1976. Two of the six pieces were written by Coker. The album was reissued as a CD in 1994, with one bonus track (a solo piano version of "Round Midnight").

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Jumping Jacks" (Coker) – 4:03
  2. "Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:26
  3. "Roots 4FB" (Mitchell) - 14:58
  4. "Mr. Yohe" (Pepper) - 6:23
  5. "Gone Again" (Gladys Hampton, Curtis Lewis, Curley Hamner) - 8:08
  6. "Tale of Two Cities" (Coker) - 6:28
  7. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) (on CD reissue only; not on original LP) - 2:27

Personnel

Recorded on December 27, 1976.

  • Dolo Coker - piano
  • Blue Mitchell - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Art Pepper - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Leroy Vinnegar - bass guitar
  • Frank Butler - drums

    • References

    California Hard Wikipedia
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