{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Third Down | type = Studio | artist = Dolo Coker | cover = Third Down.jpg | alt = | released = 1979 | recorded = November 18, 1977, Los Angeles CA | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Xanadu<br><small>153</small> | producer = Don Schlitten | chronology = Dolo Coker | prev_title = California Hard | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = All Alone | next_year = 1979 }} '''''Third Down''''' is the third album led by pianist Dolo Coker which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Xanadu label in 1979.<ref>[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Xanadu.htm Xanadu Records discography] accessed April 30, 2014</ref><ref>Fitzgerald, M., [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/CokerDolo-ldr.php Dolo Coker Leader Entry] accessed April 30, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/dolo-coker/catalog/#xanadu-139 Dolo Coker discography] accessed April 30, 2014</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} 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".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S., [http://www.allmusic.com/album/third-down-mw0000884171 Allmusic Review] accessed April 30, 2014</ref>
== Track listing == ''All compositions by Dolo Coker except as indicated'' # "You Won't Let Me Go" (Bud Allen, Buddy Johnson) - 5:37 # "Third Down" - 4:29 # "This Is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) - 6:12 # "Sweet Coke" (Harry Edison, Dolo Coker) - 4:19 # "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 6:59 # "There Is No Other Way" - 6:10 # "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 == {{reflist}} {{Dolo Coker}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Dolo Coker albums Category:1979 albums Category:Xanadu Records albums Category:Albums produced by Don Schlitten