All Alone (Dolo Coker album)

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All Alone
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Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedNovember 28, 1979, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Xanadu
178
Producer Don Schlitten
Dolo Coker chronology
Third Down
(1977)
All Alone
(1981)
Xanadu in Africa
(1980)

All Alone is a solo piano album by Dolo Coker which was recorded in 1979 and released on the Xanadu label in 1981. [1] [2] [3]

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AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow states, "Dolo Coker's fourth and final album as a leader is a set of unaccompanied piano solos with the emphasis on reflective ballads (although there are also a couple of swinging tunes)". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Dolo Coker except as indicated

  1. "Reflections" - 5:54
  2. "Sine and Cosine" - 2:15
  3. "Just You" - 4:36
  4. "Cabin in the Sky" (Vernon Duke, John La Touche) - 5:38
  5. "All Alone" - 4:12
  6. "The Things You Never Said" - 4:59
  7. "Spectrum" - 3:24
  8. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry M. Woods) - 5:53

Personnel

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References

  1. Xanadu Records discography accessed April 30, 2014
  2. Fitzgerald, M., Dolo Coker Leader Entry accessed April 30, 2014
  3. Dolo Coker discography accessed April 30, 2014
  4. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed April 30, 2014