Dolo!

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Dolo!
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Studio album by Dolo Coker
Released 1977
Recorded December 26, 1976, Los Angeles CA
Genre Jazz
Label Xanadu
139
Producer Don Schlitten
Dolo Coker chronology
Dolo!
(1977)		 California Hard
(1976)

Dolo! is the debut album by pianist Dolo Coker which was recorded in 1976 and released on the Xanadu label. [1] [2] [3]

Charles Mitchell "Dolo" Coker was a jazz pianist and composer who recorded four albums for Xanadu Records and extensively as a sideman, for artists like Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Lou Donaldson, Art Pepper, Philly Joe Jones, and Dexter Gordon.

Xanadu Records

Xanadu Records was a jazz record label founded in 1975 by Don Schlitten. It was most active during the 1970s and 1980s and stopped recording in the 1990s. The catalogue was bought by emusic in 1999, but no new music was produced. In 2007, the catalogue was bought by The Orchard, which entered an agreement in 2015 with Elemental Music to reissue some of the catalog as the Xanadu Master Edition Series. The partnership planned to include albums by Kenny Barron, Bob Berg, Al Cohn, Sonny Criss, Joe Farrell, Barry Harris, Dexter Gordon, Albert Heath, Jimmy Heath, Duke Jordan, Charles McPherson, and Cecil Payne.

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Reception

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The Allmusic review stated "The music is as hard swinging as one would expect from this personnel". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Dolo Coker except as indicated

  1. "Dolo" - 7:23
  2. "Affair in Havana - 6:48
  3. "Lady Hawthorne, Please" - 6:42
  4. "Field Day" - 8:11
  5. "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) - 7:20
  6. "Smack Up" (Harold Land) - 5:34

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Blue Mitchell American musician

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk trumpeter, and composer, who recorded many albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and Mainstream Records.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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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
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