The Blue Guitar Sessions (Jesse Cook album)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jesse Arnaud Cook |
| Born |
28 November 1964 Paris, France |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | New flamenco, world music, ethno jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Acoustic guitar |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Narada, EMI, E1 Entertainment |
| Website | www |
Jesse Arnaud Cook (born 28 November 1964) is a Canadian guitarist, composer, and producer. He incorporates elements of flamenco rumba, jazz and many forms of world music into his work. He is a Juno Award winner, Acoustic Guitar Player's Choice Award silver winner in the Flamenco Category, and a three-time winner of the Canadian Smooth Jazz award for Guitarist of the Year. He has recorded on the EMI, E1 Music and Narada labels and has sold over 1.5 million records worldwide.
Born to photographer and filmmaker John Cook and television director and producer Heather Cook, and nephew to artist Arnaud Maggs, Jesse Cook spent the first few years of his life moving between Paris, Southern France and Barcelona.
After his parents separated, Cook and his sister accompanied his mother to her birth country, Canada, where he took lessons at Toronto's Eli Kassner Guitar Academy, and eventually studied under Kassner. While Cook was still a teenager, his father retired to the French city of Arles in the Camargue where his neighbor was Nicolas Reyes, lead singer of the flamenco group the Gipsy Kings. During frequent visits to Arles, Jesse Cook became increasingly fascinated by the "Camargue sound", the rhythmic, flamenco-rumba approach that could be heard on many corners and cafés in the "gipsy barrio".
Back at home, he continued his studies in classical and jazz guitar at Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music, York University, and Berklee College of Music in the United States. He has often quipped that he later attempted to unlearn it all while immersing himself in the oral traditions of gypsy music.
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