Jack Cooper (musician)
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Conducting the Mists recording session
April 4, 2014 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Thomas Cooper, Jr. |
| Born |
May 14, 1963 Whittier, California, U.S. |
| Origin | La Habra, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
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The Jazz Knights Warner Brothers Publishing Alfred Music Publishing Jazz Orchestra of the Delta The Michael Waldrop Big Band Berlin Jazz Orchestra |
| Notable instruments | |
| saxophone | |
Jack Cooper (Née John Thomas Cooper Jr., May 14, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. He has written music for internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists including Aaron Neville,Marc Secara, Jiggs Whigham, the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Lenny Pickett, Joyce Cobb,Donald Brown,Alexis Cole, Jimi Tunnell, Young Voices Brandenburg, Bobby Shew,Christian McBride, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra,the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. His catalogue of music includes jazz through contemporary classical; he has worked for Columbia Pictures Publishing, Warner Brothers, and Alfred Music as a staff arranger since 1993.
Jack Cooper was born in Whittier, California on May 14, 1963, he was raised in nearby La Habra. He is the younger brother of artist and stylist Cathy Cooper and also the grandson (x4) of Mrs. Harriet Blanton Theobald, "Mother of Greenville." His mother, Georgie Cooper, was an accomplished classical pianist and he served as her page turner on piano and organ jobs. His father was an amateur clarinet and sax player who gave Cooper his first instruments. First musically inspired by clarinetist Artie Shaw at age eleven, he later was taken by Charlie Parker's playing on the alto sax from his dad's 78's; he took up the flute in college.
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