California Hard

Infobox Album
Name = California Hard
Type = Album
Artist = Dolo Coker


Released = 1976
Recorded = December 27, 1976
Genre = Hard bop
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Label = Xanadu
Producer = Don Schlitten
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Last album =
This album = "California Hard"
(1976)
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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").

Track listing

#"Jumping Jacks" (Coker) – 4:03
#"Gone With the Wind" (Magidson-Wrubel) – 4:26
#"Roots 4FB" (Mitchell) - 14:58
#"Mr. Yohe" (Pepper) - 6:23
#"Gone Again" (Hampton-Lewis-Hammer) - 8:08
#"Tale of Two Cities" (Coker) - 6:28
#"Round Midnight" (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