Jerome Cooper

Jerome Cooper ( born December 14, 1946 in Chicago) is an American jazz drummer, flutist and pianist of avant-garde jazz.

Cooper studied in the late 1950s and the early 1960s drums, played at the beginning of his career with Oscar Brown Jr.. Then he moved to Europe, where he worked with Steve Lacy, toured Africa with Lou Bennett and played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, also with Frank Wright and Noah Howard in the 1970s. On his return to the United States in 1971, he founded with Leroy Jenkins and Sirone the " Revolutionary Ensemble ," said one of the major groups of avant-garde jazz was this decade and 6 boards grossed. The ensemble in which Cooper was also active as a pianist, horn player and flutist, existed until 1977. During this time he also worked with George Adams, Sam Rivers, Karl Berger, Andrew Hill, Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell ( Wildflowers 1976), in he played the 1980s in the band of Cecil Taylor. In the 1970s, an album under his own name ( " Alone Together " ), with Thomas Buckner, most recently his album " From There to Hear " with live recordings from 1995 to 1998 was, among other things, from the Knitting Factory.

Auswahldiskographie

• Lester Bowie: Mirage (RCA Camden, 1974-82 )
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Live in Paris, Vol 1 ( Frances 's Concert, 1970)
• Revolutionary Ensemble ( ESP-Disk, 1972)
• Revolutionary Ensemble ( Enja, 1977)
• Cecil Taylor: It's In The Brewing Luminous ( has type, 1980)

Sources and links

• Jerome Cooper about his concept of " multi-dimensional drumming " at mutablemusic.com
• Sirone, Jerome Cooper and the " Revolutionary Ensemble " in allaboutjazz.com
• Jerome Cooper in answers.com
• Portrait of Matthew Sumera on his album " From There to Hear "

• Jazz drummer
• Jazz flutist
• Jazz Pianist
• American musician
• Born in 1946
• Man