Marty Cook

Marty Cook ( born May 5, 1947 in Long Iceland, New York) is an American jazz trombonist and composer who has lived in Germany since the 80s.

His professional career started at age 19 in New York, where he lived with the exception of side trips to Europe and to the West Coast until the late seventies, and worked. In the New York " loft jazz " scene of the seventies Marty Cook was among other things with different groups ( inter alia with Sam Rivers, Jeanne Lee, Jay Clayton and Perry Robinson) active. He also worked with jazz, Latin, and rock groups in the New York area together.

In the 1980s, Cook played with Paul Motian, Dewey Redman, Paul Grabowsky, Hans Dulfer, Gunter Hampel, Guenther Klatt, Mal Waldron, Jürgen Wuchner and Barbara Dennerlein. Next he performed with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, with the embryo and the Red area.

He has performed with his own groups throughout Europe, which included, for example, Jim Pepper, Monty Waters, Allan Praskin or Ed Schuller. Currently he has a duo project with pianist Larry Porter and a trio with Geoff Goodman and Gunnar Geise; in the formation Conspiracy He plays, inter alia, with Rudi Mahall. Guest performances in Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon brought him into close contact with the Arab music. He has taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and at the State Academy of Music in Mannheim.

Cook has recorded eight CDs under his own name. The Penguin Guide to Jazz ( 1995) writes of him: " As Ray Anderson goes its own way, Cook must lead the contemporary trombone squad. He ... has remarkable qualities, both as a soloist and as a bandleader. Clear articulation, inexhaustible ideas, secure arrangements and an impressive structural sensitivity "