Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Chicago Tribune Baltimore Sun Glendale News-Press (L.A.)	Highly favorable Top 10 Jazz Recordings for 2014
Jazz Journal
BBC Radio 3	Jazz Line-Up Playlist
London Jazz News	Highly favorable
	Highly favorable
Fidelity	Feature article
JazzLife Magazine	Highly favorable
All About Jazz	Best Recordings of 2014 #10 of top 12 read reviews of 2014 #1 of top 12 "Most Recommended" reviews of 2014
100 Best Albums of 2014 Ted Gioia	HONORABLE MENTION
Roots Music Report's top 100 Jazz Album Chart for 2014	#88
LA Jazz Scene Scott Yanow	Highly favorable
International Association of Jazz Record Collectors IAJRC Journal	Highly favorable
Commercial Appeal
Jazz Society of Oregon	Highly favorable
Midwest Record	Highly favorable
JazzTimes (2)	Highly favorable
Jazz Weekly	Highly favorable
O's Place Jazz Newsletter
JazzScan	Highly favorable
Tom Hull Best Jazz Albums of 2014	B+(*)
Jazz Reader
KPOO San Francisco AVOTCJA’s BEST OF FOR 2014	#12
The Nashville Musician	Highly favorable
The Daily News	Highly favorable
WDCB Chicago	Highly favorable

Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra is an internationally acclaimed jazz album produced by Planet Arts Recordings and released in August 2014. The recording is centered on Charles Ives' art song arranged for 17 piece jazz orchestra by composer Jack Cooper; this is a Third stream approach to jazz made more widely know by earlier band leaders and composers such as Paul Whiteman, Gunther Schuller, George Russell and Don Sebesky. The album is archived in the both the United States Library of Congress and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a historically significant sound recording.

Noted Ives scholar Gayle Magee writes,"These recordings preserve the essence of (Ives) classics...while offering a fresh, modern reinterpretation for Ives fans and jazz enthusiasts alike." The album was named as one of the Top 10 Jazz CDs for 2014 in the Chicago Tribune by music critic Howard Reich and also peaked at #8 in radio airplay in the Roots Music Report for top albums in Canada for October 26, 2014. Reich comments about the CD, "Can the gnarly, rhythmically complex, densely scored works of Ives be transformed (sic)? ...arranger Cooper accomplishes it brilliantly, applying a jazz aesthetic to Ives classics..."

Jack Cooper grew up in a musical household in the greater Los Angeles area. His mother (Georgie Cooper) was a professional keyboardist, and numerous musicians visited their house to rehearse and give recitals; his Godfather (Robert Voris) was one of those. Voris was one of the first vocal soloists (baritone) with the William Hall Master Chorale in the late 1950s and at one point recorded a LP of classical art song with his mother in October 1963, just 5 months after Cooper was born. Many works were recorded for the LP to include Charles Ives' songs. The Ives titles recorded on the master tapes were The Greatest Man, Serenity, Evening and Charlie Rutlage. This sound became normal for Cooper to hear at home. He heard Ives' songs performed for about 10 years until both his mother and Voris were too busy to perform regular recitals together any longer.

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