For the People (Jerome Cooper album)

For the People
Live album by
Released1980
RecordedMay 12, 1979
VenueThe Kitchen, New York City
GenreJazz
Length40:30
LabelHat Hut Records
1R07
ProducerPia Uehlinger and Werner X. Uehlinger
Jerome Cooper chronology
The Unpredictability of Predictability
(1979)
For the People
(1980)
Root Assumptions
(1982)

For the People is a live album by Jerome Cooper. It was recorded in May 1979 at The Kitchen in New York City, and was released on LP by Hat Hut Records in 1980. On the album, Cooper, who plays a variety of instruments, including drums, chirimia, African balaphone, and whistle, is joined by Oliver Lake, who performs on alto saxophone, flute, bells, and vocals.