Hal Crook
Hal Crook (* 1950 ) is an American jazz trombonist .
Live and act
As a child, Crook had a classical piano training. Until 1971 he studied at Berklee College of Music . He then taught contemporary music at the Rhode Island School of Music and founded the Rhode Island School of Performing Music with drummer Artie Cabral in 1976 . He has given courses at the University of Rhode Island and has taught at the University of California in Los Angeles and San Diego .
In 1982, Crook founded the San Diego School of Performing Music (later JazzSchool ), where he taught until 1986. Then he became a professor at Berklee College, where he teaches arrangement, composition, improvisation and ensemble playing, among other things. Between 1998 and 2005 he was also visiting artist in residence at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz . He published several textbooks on jazz improvisation and recorded several instructional CDs.
Crook composed and arranged a. a. for Phil Woods , Clark Terry , Herb Pomeroy , Louis Bellson , Artie Shaw , Duke Belaire , Dick Johnson and Nick Brignola and has written collections of compositions for jazz ensembles, a selection was published under the title The Music of Hal Crook - 35 Jazz Originals .
He was a member of the Phil Woods Quintet and has performed with musicians such as Jerry Bergonzi , George Cables , Joe Diorio , Bill Dobbins , Joe Farrell , George Garzone , Mick Goodrick , Tom Harrell , Woody Herman , John Hicks , Milton Hinton , Thad Jones , Paul Motian , Adam Nussbaum , Lew Tabackin , Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer , Daniel Humair and John Medeski . As a band leader and sideman, he has recorded more than forty albums. With his own band Um (with Bob Gullotti , Leo Genovese and Dave Zinno ) he performed weekly in Providence (Rhode Island) between 1994 and 2008 .
Discography as a band leader
- Creatures of Habit with Leo Genovese, Take Toriyama , Thompson Kneeland
- Hero Worship with Paul Motian, Mick Goodrick
- Only Human with Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood
- Narayani with Joe Diorio, Steve LaSpina , Steve Bagby
- Conjunction with Jerry Bergonzi, Walter Schmocker
- Trio I with Dave Weigert , Yorai Oron
- Trio II with Dave Weigert, Hans Glawischnig
- Trio III with Dave Weigert, Hans Glawschnig
- Hello Heaven Phil Woods, Bill Dobbins, Chuck Israels , Bill Goodwin
- Creative Comping for Improvisation, Vol. I, II, III
- Hal Crook Trio with Mick Goodrick, Marcello Pelletteri
Books
- How to Improvise . Advance Music, 1991, ISBN 3-89221-031-4 .
- How to Comp
- Ready, Aim, Improvise!
Web links
- Works by and about Hal Crook in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hal Crook website
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| SURNAME | Crook, Hal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trombonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |