Junior Cook

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Junior Cook (m. Horace Silver Quintet, Amsterdam 1959)

Herman "Junior" Cook (* 22. July 1934 in Pensacola , Florida; † 4. February 1992 in New York City , New York) was an American jazz - tenor saxophonist of hard bop .

Live and act

Junior Cook played alto saxophone in school , but later switched to tenor saxophone. He came to New York in 1952, played with Gloria Bell in 1957 and with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958 ; from May 1958 Cook was a member of the Horace Silver Quintet and played with him the classic hard-bop records on Blue Note Records , such as Song for My Father . In this band he was a member until 1964. He then played with Blue Mitchell until 1968 and recorded records with Kenny Burrell , Cedar Walton and the organist Don Patterson . Then he taught at the Berklee School of Music .

1973 to 1975 he played with Freddie Hubbard , finally "free-lance" in New York, a. a. with Elvin Jones , George Coleman , Barry Harris . In 1975 he founded a quintet with Louis Hayes and Woody Shaw , and in the 1980s Cook taught and directed a quintet with trumpeter Bill Hardman . From 1988 to 1991 he released a few records under his own name, but also played in the Big Band of McCoy Tyner .

Stylistically, Junior Cook's play showed influences from Wardell Gray , Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane .

Discography

as a leader

as a sideman

  • Horace Silver: Six Pieces of Silver (1956-58); Blowing The Blues Away (1959); Horace Scope (1960); The Tokyo Blues (1962), Silver's Serenade (1963); Song For My Father (1964) (all on Blue Note)
  • Kenny Burrell: Blue Lights (Blue Note, 1958)
  • Miles Davis : Mostly Miles (Phontastic, 1958)
  • Dave Bailey Sextet: One Foot In The Gutter ( Epic , 1960)
  • Blue Mitchell: Down With It (Blue Note, 1965)
  • Barry Harris: Luminescence! ( Prestige Records , 1967)
  • Cedar Walton: Cedar! ( OJC , 1967)
  • Don Patterson: The New York Dues (Prestige, 1968-69)
  • Clifford Jordan : Two Tenor Winner ( Criss Cross Jazz , 1984)
  • McCoy Tyner: Uptown / Downtown (Milestone, 1988)
  • Bill Hardman: What's Up? (SteepleChase, 1989)
  • Larry Gales Sextet: A Message from Monk ( Candid Records , 1990)
  • Bertha Hope : Elmo's Fire (SteepleChase, 1991)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Cook, junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cook, Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Pensacola , Florida
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1992
Place of death New York City , New York