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Dolo!

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Dolo!

Studio album by

Dolo Coker

Released

1977

Recorded

December 26, 1976, Los Angeles CA

Xanadu
139

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]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[4]

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

Track listing

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All compositions by Dolo Coker except as indicated

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

Personnel

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Dolo Coker - piano
Blue Mitchell - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1-4 &6)
Harold Land - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-4 &6)
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Frank Butler - drums

References

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^ Xanadu Records discography accessed April 30, 2014

^ Fitzgerald, M., Dolo Coker Leader Entry accessed April 30, 2014

^ Dolo Coker discography accessed April 30, 2014

^ ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed April 30, 2014

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

Dolo Coker

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums

Dolo! (1976)
California Hard (1976)
Third Down (1977)
All Alone (1979)

Live albums

Xanadu in Africa (with Al Cohn, Billy Mitchell, Leroy Vinnegar, and Frank Butler, 1980)
Night Flight to Dakar (with Al Cohn, Billy Mitchell, Leroy Vinnegar, and Frank Butler, 1980)

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