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Third Down (album)

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Released
  
1979

Third Down (1977)
  
All Alone (1979)

Release date
  
1979

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Xanadu 153

Artist
  
Dolo Coker

Producer
  
Don Schlitten

Recorded
  
November 18, 1977, Los Angeles CA

Similar
  
Dolo!, California Hard, Home Is Where the Soul Is, All Alone, The Golden Age of Ap

Third Down is the third album led by pianist Dolo Coker which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Xanadu label in 1979.

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Reception

The Allmusic review reccommened the album awarding it album 2½ stars and stating "The boppish pianist, who spent many of his key years in Los Angeles and was therefore always underrated, shows throughout this set that he was a creative player within the hard bop idiom".

Track listing

All compositions by Dolo Coker except as indicated

  1. "You Won't Let Me Go" (Bud Allen, Buddy Johnson) - 5:37
  2. "Third Down" - 4:29
  3. "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) - 6:12
  4. "Sweet Coke" (Harry Edison, Dolo Coker) - 4:19
  5. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 6:59
  6. "There Is No Other Way" - 6:10
  7. "Out Of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 8:22

Personnel

  • Dolo Coker - piano
  • Harry Edison - trumpet (tracks 4 & 7)
  • Leroy Vinnegar - bass
  • Frank Butler - drums
  • References

    Third Down (album) Wikipedia


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