The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper
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Studio album by Jack Cooper and various artists |
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| Released | May 1, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | November 2007-June 2009, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
| Genre | Classical, Chamber Music, New Music, instrumental, Jazz | |||
| Length | 63:30 | |||
| Label | Centaur Records | |||
| Producer | Jack Cooper | |||
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cat. #, Centaur CRC 3027 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Fanfare Magazine | (very positive) |
| American Record Guide | (positive) |
| emusic |   |
| WRUV | (positive) |
| The Horn Call | (luke warm/positive) |
| ICA, The Clarinet | (very positive) |
| Saxophone Journal | (very positive) |
cat. #, Centaur CRC 3027
The Chamber Wind Music of Jack Cooper is the first classical/new music studio recording featuring numerous performing artists recording chamber wind music of the composer on the Centaur Records label.
In 2006 it was decided a CD would be produced as a collaboration between Centaur Records and resources housed at the University of Memphis. Centaur Records agreed to have a CD completed for their label of either chamber wind works or chamber string/piano works; not a mix or both so to avoid a conflict in programming and marketing. Artists were selected based on virtuoso musicianship and familiarity with the composer's work; being able to play both written and improvised passages at a high musical level.
All tracks written by Jack Cooper.
Interviews were done in 2010 for WKNO-FM NPR Radio and WUMR Radio about the recording. The works from the CD have been played and featured at numerous concert venues in North and South American (U.S.A., Canada, Brazil), primarily by the artists who commissioned each work. The euphonium work One of the Missing was commissioned by John Mueller and is strong protest piece that both Cooper and Mueller felt very compelled to present in opposition to the Iraq War. The recording of the Trombone Sonata (and manuscript) is one of the main subjects in a dissertation written in 2011 by Dr. Anthony Williams (music professor, University of Northern Iowa) on style and approach to four prominent 20th/21st Century solo trombone works: Alec Wilder - Sonata for Trombone and Piano, Richard Peaslee - Arrows of Time, William Goldstein - Colloquy for solo trombone, Jack Cooper - Sonata For Trombone. The Trombone Sonata has also had a second prominent recording by trombone artist Mark Hetzler on his 2015 CD recording Blues, Ballads and Beyond with Summit Records. All brass works (trombone, brass quintet, euphonium) from the recording are currently published with Brassworks 4 Publishing.
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