Hard Work
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Hard Work is a 1976 album by jazz saxophonist John Handy
, only his second album of the 1970s
A surprise hit, the album topped out at #4 on the Billboard jazz chart and #43 on the Billboard Top 200.
The second track is a tribute to saxophonist Louis Jordan
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John Handy
John Richard Handy III is an American jazz alto saxophonist.-Biography:In the 1960s, Handy led several groups...
, only his second album of the 1970s
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...
A surprise hit, the album topped out at #4 on the Billboard jazz chart and #43 on the Billboard Top 200.
The second track is a tribute to saxophonist Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
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Tracklisting
- "Hard Work"
- "Blues for Louis Jordan"
- "Young Enough to Dream"
- "Love for Brother Jack"
- "Didn't I tell you"
- "Afro Wiggle"
- "You Don't Know"
Personnel
- Hotep Cecil BarnardHotep Idris GaletaHotep Idris Galeta was a South African jazz pianist and educator. His legal name at birth was Cecil Galeta, but according to local custom he was more commonly known as a child and young man as Cecil Barnard, his father's first name being used instead of a last name.In his teens he played with...
- keyboards - Mike Hoffmann - guitar
- Zakir HussainZakir Hussain (musician)Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...
- tabla