Sid Cooper

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Sidney "Sid" Cooper (born November 2, 1918 in Montreal ; † July 18, 2011 in Lake Worth , Florida ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( flute , clarinet , also saxophones , arrangement ).

Live and act

Cooper's family was from New York; He began his career as a professional musician at the Fallsview Resort in the Catskills , then in New York he played alto saxophone in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s ; Further recordings were made during this time with Ziggy Elman and as a studio musician a. a. at Norman Leyden, Sy Oliver , Pete Rugolo and Hugo Montenegro with Louis Armstrong , Ella Fitzgerald , Nat King Cole , Billy Eckstine , Johnny Hartman , Billie Holiday , Tony Pastor and Sarah Vaughan . He has also appeared on a number of variety shows including Eddie Fisher's Coke Time , the Steve Allen Show, Masquerade Party and Hullaballoo . Cooper also worked as an arranger and was a long-time member of the Tonight Show Orchestra until Johnny Carson moved to Burbank with the show in 1972.

In the 1950s and 60s he was a member of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra and the orchestras of Ralph Flanagan , Henry Jerome and Gil Evans ( Miles Ahead , 1956, with Miles Davis ); he also played with Charles Mingus , Billy Taylor , Hymie Schertzer , Rex Stewart , Sonny Stitt and Rusty Dedrick . In 1961 he published the album Percussive Jazz, Vol. 2 under his own name ; Contributing musicians included Bobby Rosengarden , Tony Mottola , Phil Bodner , Buddy Weed , Doc Severinsen and Eddie Costa . In 1974 he toured with Frank Sinatra . In the 80s and 90s he worked a. a. still as a musician in Broadway musicals and with Sylvia Syms ( Syms By Sinatra ), Irv Cottler and Dick Hyman on his soundtracks for films by Woody Allen such as Bullets Over Broadway , Mighty Aphrodite (1994) and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). In the field of jazz he was involved in 220 recording sessions between 1943 and 1995.

Cooper's wife Pat Cooper was the youngest of the Kim Loo Sisters , who appeared as a jazz vocal quartet around 1939/40.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Sid Cooper , U.S. Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Obituary at Hollywood Reporter
  3. ^ Cooper had transcribed alto saxophone solos by Charlie Parker in 1946 and rehearsed them with the Reed Section of the Dorsey Orchestra. He then suggested Tommy Dorsey play these solos with the band, which Dorsey, who didn't know what to do with bebop , met with incomprehension. See Ira Gitler : Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s , 1985, p. 216.
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 13, 2016)
  5. ↑ Vladimir Simosko: Serge Chaloff : A Musical Biography and Discography , 1998, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Sid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Sidney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician (flute, clarinet, also saxophone, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2011
Place of death Lake Worth , Florida