Jack Cooley (musician)

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Jack Cooley (* around 1920; † unknown) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( drums , vocals , composition ).

Cooley, who came from Chicago, played in 1946 with Albert Ammons and His Rhythm Kings (inter alia with Ike Perkins , Israel Crosby ), heard in "Swanee River Boogie". The title hit # 5 on the R&B charts ). On the B-side of the single (Mercury 8022) "I Didn't Want to See You", Cooley could also be heard as a band vocalist. In the following years he worked with the Israel Crosby Quartette and Little Brother Montgomery . Under his own name ( Jack Cooley and His Orchestra ) he - u. a. on the Nashville-based record label Nashboro - a number of R&B numbers, mostly original compositions such as “Mr. Two-Gun Pete "(1950)," Dyna-Flow "," Tom-Tom Boogie "(1951)," It's So Fine "(1952)," I Could But I Ain't "(1953), and" Rain on My Window "(1953). The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in six recording sessions between 1946 and 1956.

Discographic notes

Cooley's music can be found on compilations such as:

  • Long Man Blues (Delmark, ed. 2000)
  • Wail Daddy! (Nashville Jump Blues) (Ace, ed. 1997)
  • The Excello Story Volume 1 1952–1955 (Hip-O Records, ed. 1999)
  • A Shot In The Dark - Nashville Jumps ( Bear Family Records , ed. 2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story by Randy Fox (2018)
  2. ^ Billboard November 2, 1946, p. 17
  3. ↑ Martin Hawkins: A Shot in the Dark: Making Records in Nashville, 1945-1955. Vanderbilt University Press & Country Music Foundation Press, 2006
  4. ↑ C&G and Master 102
  5. ↑ Nashboro 527
  6. ↑ Nashboro 519
  7. ↑ States 125
  8. ↑ States 125; with John Cameron (& probably Red Holloway : tenor saxophone, Lafayette Leake: piano and celesta, Willie Dixon : bass and Fred Below : drums.
  9. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 19, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Cooley, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and R&B musician (drums, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century