Buster Cooper
George "Buster" Cooper (* 4 April 1929 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ; † 13. May 2016 ) was an American jazz - trombone player of Swing .
Life
Buster Cooper attended Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg and first played in local orchestras such as the band of Nat Towles in Texas , came to New York City in 1950 , studied at the Hartnett School until 1952, played with Lionel Hampton from 1952-55 and attended with whose volume at the end of 1953 Europe. He was then two years in the house band of the Apollo Theater in Harlem , played with Benny Goodman and formed his own band with his brother Steve (a bassist ), the Coopers Brothers Band . He was part of the Ellington Band between 1962 and 1969 and moved to Los Angeles in 1973 , where he played with local bands.
Cooper later appeared again with Hampton and, in the past few years, with TS Monk . He has also made records for Duke Ellington , Prestige Blues Swingers , Arnett Cobb , Jack McDuff , and AK Salim . He played regularly in St. Petersburg until the 2010s. In his later years he still worked on recordings with musicians such as Woody Herman & Lionel Hampton All Stars, Curtis Peagler , Gerald Wilson , Bobby Short , Frank Capp / Nat Pierce Juggernaut, Ruth Brown and Yasuko Agawa , most recently with The IMTS Jubilee All Stars ( When Legends Get Together , with Clark Terry , Sweets Edison , Willie Pickens and others ). In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 241 recording sessions between 1952 and 1996.
Discographic notes
- Buster Cooper and Thurman Green : E-bone-ix (1989), with Phil Wright, Louie Spears, Dave Tucker,
Lexical entry
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt 1988
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Buster Cooper in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at allmusic
- List of musicians credited with playing on 22nd Street St.Petersburg Times Online 2002
- Obituary in The Guardian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz icon, trombonist Buster Cooper dies at 87 in St. Petersburg
- ↑ Report in Bay News (2011) ( memento of the original from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 24, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooper, buster |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooper, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swing jazz trombonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Petersburg , Florida |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2016 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Florida |