Doc Cook
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Doc Cook |
| Born | Charles L. Cooke Script error: No such module "person date". Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Wurtsboro, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Musician, bandleader, arranger |
| LabelTemplate:Pluralize from text | Gennett |
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Charles L. Cooke (September 3, 1891 – December 25, 1958), known as Doc Cook, was an American jazz bandleader and arranger. Cook was a Doctor of Music, awarded by the Chicago Musical College in 1926.[1]
Life
Born in Louisville, he first worked as a composer and arranger in Detroit before moving to Chicago around 1910. Cook became resident leader of the orchestra at Paddy Harmon's Dreamland Ballroom in Chicago from 1922 to 1927, acting as conductor and musical director.
The ensemble recorded under several names, such as Cookie's Gingersnaps, Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation, and Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra. Among those who played in Cook's band were Freddie Keppard, Jimmie Noone, Johnny St. Cyr, Zutty Singleton, Joe Poston, Andrew Hilaire, and Luis Russell.[2] After 1927 Cook's orchestra played in Chicago at the Municipal Pier and the White City Ballroom.[3]
In 1930, Cook moved to New York City and worked as an arranger for Radio City Music Hall and RKO, working there into the 1940s.[2] On Broadway, he had a number of important orchestration credits, including The Hot Mikado (1939) and the first U.S. production of The Boy Friend in collaboration with Ted Royal in 1954.[4] A proponent of ragtime, he also worked frequently with Eubie Blake, supplying the arrangements for the 1952 revival of Shuffle Along.[5]
Recordings
Cook recorded 6 sides for Gennett in early 1924, as Cook's Dreamland Orchestra , then 4 sides for OKeh in June 1926 as Cookie's Gingersnaps. In July 1926 Doc Cook signed to Columbia, with which recorded 14 sides 6 through March 1928.
1923-27 - Freddie Keppard, The Complete Set 1923-26 (Retrieval RTR79017, 2005). The CD contains the 6 Gennett and the 4 Okeh sides plus 8 Columbia, all with Keppard on cornet.
References
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- ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Template:ISBN
- ^ a b Doc Cook at Allmusic.com
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Charles "Doc" Cooke (1891-1958)". Red Hot Jazz Archive. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- ^ Internet Broadwat Database listing
- ^ Steven Suskin, The Sound of Broadway Music, Oxford University Press, New York, 2009, p. 82 Template:ISBN
Sources
External links
- Works by or about Doc Cook at the Internet Archive
- Charles L. Cooke at Internet Broadway Database
- Doc Cook discography at Discogs
- Doc Cooke (1891-1958 Red Hot Jazz Archive
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