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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Junior Cook</span></h1>
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<p><b>Herman „Junior“ Cook</b> (* <a href="22._Juli" title="22. Juli">22. Juli</a> <a href="1934" title="1934">1934</a> in <a href="Pensacola_(Florida)" title="Pensacola (Florida)">Pensacola</a>, Florida; † <a href="4._Februar" title="4. Februar">4. Februar</a> <a href="1992" title="1992">1992</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, New York) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">amerikanischer</a> <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a>-<a href="Tenorsaxophon" title="Tenorsaxophon">Tenorsaxophonist</a> des <a href="Hard_Bop" title="Hard Bop">Hard Bop</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Junior Cook spielte in der Schulzeit <a href="Altsaxophon" title="Altsaxophon">Altsaxophon</a>, wechselte jedoch später zum Tenorsaxophon. Er kam 1952 nach New York, spielte 1957 bei Gloria Bell, 1958 bei <a href="Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>; ab Mai 1958 war Cook Mitglied des <a href="Horace_Silver" title="Horace Silver">Horace-Silver</a>-Quintetts und spielte mit ihm die klassischen Hard-Bop-Platten auf <a href="Blue_Note_Records" title="Blue Note Records">Blue Note Records</a> ein, wie <i><a href="Song_for_My_Father" title="Song for My Father">Song for My Father</a></i>. In dieser Band war er Mitglied bis 1964. Anschließend spielte er bis 1968 mit <a href="Blue_Mitchell" title="Blue Mitchell">Blue Mitchell</a> und nahm Platten mit <a href="Kenny_Burrell" title="Kenny Burrell">Kenny Burrell</a>, <a href="Cedar_Walton" title="Cedar Walton">Cedar Walton</a> und dem Organisten <a href="Don_Patterson" title="Don Patterson">Don Patterson</a> auf. Dann unterrichtete er an der <a href="Berklee_College_of_Music" title="Berklee College of Music">Berklee School of Music</a>.
</p><p>1973 bis 1975 spielte er mit <a href="Freddie_Hubbard" title="Freddie Hubbard">Freddie Hubbard</a>, schließlich „free-lance“ in New York, u. a. mit <a href="Elvin_Jones" title="Elvin Jones">Elvin Jones</a>, <a href="George_Coleman" title="George Coleman">George Coleman</a>, <a href="Barry_Harris" title="Barry Harris">Barry Harris</a>. 1975 gründete er ein Quintett mit <a href="Louis_Hayes" title="Louis Hayes">Louis Hayes</a> und <a href="Woody_Shaw" title="Woody Shaw">Woody Shaw</a>, in den 1980er Jahren unterrichtete Cook und leitete ein Quintett mit dem Trompeter <a href="Bill_Hardman" title="Bill Hardman">Bill Hardman</a>. Von 1988 bis 1991 brachte er einige Platten unter eigenem Namen heraus, spielte aber auch in der <a href="Big_Band" title="Big Band">Big Band</a> von <a href="McCoy_Tyner" title="McCoy Tyner">McCoy Tyner</a>.
</p><p>Stilistisch zeigte Junior Cooks Spiel Einflüsse von <a href="Wardell_Gray" title="Wardell Gray">Wardell Gray</a>, <a href="Sonny_Rollins" title="Sonny Rollins">Sonny Rollins</a> und <a href="John_Coltrane" title="John Coltrane">John Coltrane</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Diskographie">Diskographie</h2></div>
<p><b>als Leader</b>
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<ul><li><i>Junior’s Cookin’</i> (<a href="Jazzland_Records" title="Jazzland Records">Jazzland Records</a>, 1961)</li>
<li><i>The Place To Be</i> (<a href="SteepleChase_Records" title="SteepleChase Records">SteepleChase Records</a>; 1988)</li>
<li><i>On a Misty Night</i> (SteepleChase, 1989)</li>
<li><i>You Leave Me Breathless</i> (SteepleChase, 1991)</li></ul>
<p><b>als Sideman</b>
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<ul><li>Horace Silver: <i>Six Pieces of Silver</i> (1956–58); <i>Blowing The Blues Away</i> (1959); <i>Horace-Scope</i> (1960); <i>The Tokyo Blues</i> (1962), <i>Silver’s Serenade</i> (1963); <i>Song For My Father</i> (1964) (alle auf Blue Note)</li>
<li>Kenny Burrell: <i>Blue Lights</i> (Blue Note, 1958)</li>
<li><a href="Miles_Davis" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a>: <i>Mostly Miles</i> (Phontastic, 1958)</li>
<li><a href="Dave_Bailey_(Musiker)" title="Dave Bailey (Musiker)">Dave Bailey</a> Sextet: <i>One Foot In The Gutter</i> (<a href="Epic_Records" title="Epic Records">Epic</a>, 1960)</li>
<li>Blue Mitchell: <i>Down With It</i> (Blue Note, 1965)</li>
<li>Barry Harris: <i>Luminescence!</i> (<a href="Prestige_Records" title="Prestige Records">Prestige Records</a>, 1967)</li>
<li>Cedar Walton: <i>Cedar!</i> (<a href="Original_Jazz_Classics" title="Original Jazz Classics">OJC</a>, 1967)</li>
<li>Don Patterson: <i>Dem New York Dues</i> (Prestige, 1968–69)</li>
<li><a href="Clifford_Jordan" title="Clifford Jordan">Clifford Jordan</a>: <i>Two Tenor Winner</i> (<a href="Criss_Cross_Jazz" title="Criss Cross Jazz">Criss Cross Jazz</a>, 1984)</li>
<li>McCoy Tyner: <i>Uptown / Downtown</i> (Milestone, 1988)</li>
<li>Bill Hardman: <i>What’s Up?</i> (SteepleChase, 1989)</li>
<li><a href="Larry_Gales" title="Larry Gales">Larry Gales</a> Sextet: <i>A Message from Monk</i> (<a href="Candid_Records" title="Candid Records">Candid Records</a>, 1990)</li>
<li><a href="Bertha_Hope" title="Bertha Hope">Bertha Hope</a>: <i>Elmo’s Fire</i> (SteepleChase, 1991)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Martin_Kunzler" title="Martin Kunzler">Martin Kunzler</a>: <i>Jazz-Lexikon</i>, Reinbek, Rowohlt 1988.</li>
<li><a href="Richard_Cook" title="Richard Cook">Richard Cook</a>, <a href="Brian_Morton" title="Brian Morton">Brian Morton</a>: <i><a href="The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz" title="The Penguin Guide to Jazz">The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD</a>.</i> 6. Auflage. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6.</li>
<li>Bielefelder Katalog Jazz, 2001.</li></ul>
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