Junior Cook
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
- Junior's Cookin ' ( Jazzland Records , 1961)
- The Place To Be ( SteepleChase Records ; 1988)
- On a Misty Night (SteepleChase, 1989)
- You Leave Me Breathless (SteepleChase, 1991)
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
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt 1988.
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 2001.
personal data | |
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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 |