Doc Cook
Charles L. Cooke (born September 3, 1891 in Louisville , Kentucky , † December 25, 1958 in Wurtsboro , New York ) was an American big band leader and arranger of Chicago jazz . He performed under the stage name Doc Cook (sometimes Doc Cooke ).
Cooke graduated from the Chicago College of Music and received his PhD. From 1922 to 1927 he directed the Dreamland Orchestra (in Paddy Harmon's Dreamland Ballroom , a dance hall with an attached roller skating rink) in Chicago , where u. a. Freddie Keppard , Luis Russell , Johnny St. Cyr and Jimmie Noone played. They also recorded as Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation and as Cookies Gingersnaps . After 1927 he played with his orchestra in other locations such as the White City Ballroom in Chicago. In 1930 he went to New York as a permanent arranger at the radio station RKO and the Radio City Music Hall . In the early 1940s he withdrew from the music business.
Web links
- Charles L. 'Doc' Cook's Dreamland Orch. On Big Bands Database Plus - American Big Bands
- Charles "Doc" Cook on RedHotJazz
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| SURNAME | Cook, Doc |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cooke, Charles L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz big band leader and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louisville , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1958 |
| Place of death | Wurtsboro , New York |