Jerry Coker

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Jerry Coker (* 28. November 1932 in South Bend (Indiana) ) is an American jazz - clarinet , tenor saxophonist , author and university lecturer

Jerry Coker graduated from Indiana University ; he also played tenor saxophone in the Fred Dale Big Band in the early 1950s. In 1953 he interrupted his studies to become a member of Woody Herman's orchestra . During this time he also played in the Nat Pierce / Dick Collins nonet and in the formation The Herdsman with Cy Touff and Ralph Burns (1954), then in the Mel Lewis septet (1956) and with other music from West Coast jazz ; he also worked as a freelance musician. In the second half of the 1950s, the first recordings were made under his own name in Bloomington (Indiana) , San Francisco and Paris.

In the early 1960s he continued his studies; In the mid-1960s he returned to Indiana University as a lecturer and worked in the jazz field. In 1976/77 he directed the Duke Jazz Ensemble at Duke University . He later also taught at the University of Miami , North Texas State University, and the University of Tennessee . He wrote several books on improvisation, jazz keyboard and jazz history. His students included u. a. Mark Egan , Don Rader and Mark Taylor .

Discographic notes

  • Modern Music from Indiana University (Fantasy, 1955)
  • A Re-Emergence ( Revelation , 1983)
  • Rebirth (Revelation, 1984)

Publications

  • Patterns for Jazz - For Bass Clef Instruments. Miami, Warner Brothers. ISBN 0769230172
  • Patterns for Jazz - A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation: Treble Clef Instruments Warner 2002 ISBN 9780898987034
  • Listening to jazz . Englewood Cliffs. Prentice Hall 1978
  • The jazz idiom . Englewood Cliffs. Prentice Hall. 1975.
  • Jerry Coker's Jazz Keyboard Alfred Publishing Company 1984-05 ISBN 0769233236
  • Jerry Coker's Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments (CD included) Alfred Publishing Company 1997-11 ISBN 0769218563
  • Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor . Alfred Publishing Company 1997-02 ISBN 157623875X
  • A Guide to Jazz: Composition and Arranging . Rottenburg, Advance Music

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personal data
SURNAME Coker, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician, author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH South Bend, Indiana