Jesse Cook

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Jesse Cook (right) in an appearance in 2009

Jesse Cook (born November 28, 1964 in Paris ) is a Canadian guitarist and composer. His music is often described as a mixture of elements from flamenco and rumba, but it also picks up on elements of other musical genres such as jazz . So far Cook has sold over 1.5 million records.

biography

Jesse Cook was born in Paris on November 28, 1964, to the photographer John Cook and TV director Heather Cook. In his childhood, Cook et al. a. in Barcelona impressions of flamenco music which fascinated him. After his parents divorced, his mother and siblings moved with him to Canada. There the guitarist attended the Eli Kassner Guitar Academy in Toronto and later the Royal Conservatory of Music. He later studied at York University and the Berklee College of Music in Boston . Jesse Cook had his breakthrough in 1995 at the Catalina Jazz Festival in California, where he was received with a 10-minute ovation before the game started. The album "Tempest", released in the same year, was ranked 11th in the Billboard New Age Album Charts.

Awards

Jesse Cook has been nominated for the Juno Awards several times in the past in various categories . His greatest success so far was in 2001 when his album Free Fall stood out as the winner in the "Best Instrumental Album" category. In 2008, Cook won silver at Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Player's Choice Award in the Flamenco category.

His album "The Blue Guitar Sessions" reached the 21st place in the Canadian album charts.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Label Billboard chart name space
1995 Tempest Narada New Age Albums 11
1996 Gravity 5
1998 Vertigo World Albums 4th
2000 Free Fall 8th
2003 Nomad New Age Albums 5
2007 Frontiers EMI 1
2009 The Rumba Foundation World Albums 4th
2012 The Blue Guitar Sessions eOne Music New Age Albums 1
Top Canadian albums 21st
2015 One World World Albums 4th
Jazz albums 7th
2017 Beyond Borders

Live albums

year title Label
2005 Montréal Narada

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesse Cook. In: pba.org. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Keith Sharp: That Flamenco guy demans respect - Jesse Cook. In: Themusicexpress.ca. May 16, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ AWARDS. In: Website of the Juno Awards . Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Jesse Cook. In: Discogs . Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Search results. Find Jesse Cook on the Billboard Charts. In: billboard.com. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Jesse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris