Doc Cook

Charles L. Cooke ( born September 3, 1891 in Louisville, Kentucky, † December 25, 1958 in Wurtsboro, New York ) was an American big band leader and arranger of the Chicago jazz. He went under the stage name Doc Cook on (sometimes Doc Cooke ).

Cooke studied and graduated at the Chicago College of Music. From 1922 to 1927 he headed the Dreamland Orchestra ( in Paddy Harmon 's Dreamland Ballroom, a dance hall with attached roller skating rink ) in Chicago, where, inter alia, Freddie Keppard, Luis Russell, Johnny St. Cyr and Jimmie Noone played. They recorded as Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation and as Cookies Gingersnaps. After 1927 he played with his orchestra at other locations such as the White City Ballroom in Chicago. In 1930 he went to New York as a staff arranger at RKO Radio Stations and Radio City Music Hall. In the early 1940s, he retired from the music business.

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