Marty Cook

Marty Cook at the Unterfahrt jazz club (Munich 2011)

Marty Cook (born May 5, 1947 in Long Island , New York ) is an American jazz trombonist and composer who has lived in Germany since the 1980s .

He started his professional career at the age of 19 in New York, where he lived and worked until the late 1970s, with the exception of trips to Europe and the West Coast. In the New York "Loft Jazz" scene of the 1970s, Marty Cook was active with various groups (including Sam Rivers , Jeanne Lee , Jay Clayton and Perry Robinson ). He also worked with jazz, latin, and rock groups in the New York area.

In the 1980s Cook played with Paul Motian , Dewey Redman , Paul Grabowsky , Hans Dulfer , Gunter Hampel , Günther Klatt , Mal Waldron , Jürgen Wuchner and Barbara Dennerlein, among others . He has also performed with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra , Embryo and the Red Area .

He has performed with his own groups all over Europe, including Jim Pepper , Monty Waters , Allan Praskin and Ed Schuller . He currently has a duo project with pianist Larry Porter and a trio with Geoff Goodman and Gunnar Geise; in the formation Conspiracy he plays a. a. with Rudi Mahall . Guest performances in Morocco , Turkey and Lebanon brought him into close contact with Arabic music. He taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and at the State University of Music in Mannheim.

Cook has recorded eight CDs under his own name. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (1995) writes about him: “Since Ray Anderson goes his own way, Cook has to lead the contemporary trombone team. ... he has remarkable qualities, both as a soloist and as a band leader: clear articulation, inexhaustible ideas, secure arrangements and an impressive structural sensitivity. "

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