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| | |  | | | | John Cooper | | Trumpet | | John Cooper Jazz Orchestra, Baecker Music Productions, John Cooper Quintet, WIU | | - | | | | - | | (309)298-1505 | | - | | JB-Cooper@wiu.edu | | www.johncoopermusic.citymax.com |
| | John Cooper is a jazz artist and composer, who makes his home in Macomb, Illinois and is the Director of Jazz Studies at Western Illinois University. John has performed with many artists, including Clark Terry, Jon Faddis, Alan Vizutti, James Moody, Slide Hampton and others.
Cooper began his musical career in Detroit, Michigan where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Wayne State University in Jazz Studies. He then earned a Master's degree in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he worked as a teaching assistant in Jazz Studies under the supervision of Jazz Studies Director, Jeff Halsey. From Ohio,Cooper moved to New York City to continue studies with jazz artist and composer Jim McNeely at New York University, where he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music Composition in 1996. While in New York, Cooper was a member of the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop and graduated to the Master Composer's group.
Cooper is an active composer/arranger and bandleader as well as a published reviewer of new music for the International Association of Jazz Educators. He is recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to present jazz concerts at Western Illinois University and is a trumpet Artist/Clinician for Conn-Selmer.
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| | John Cooper Jazz Orchestra and Baecker Music Productions will release Dec 1, 2007 the Baecker Jazz Worship Service featuring internationally recognized artist educators Roger Ingram, Art Davis, David Hoffman, Brian Coyle, Rick Simerly, John Mose, Tom Garling, Mike Pashenee, Kenny Partyka, Russ Miller, Gunnar Mossblad, Chris Collins, Mark Berger, Matt Michaels, Jeff Halsey, David Taylor, and Rev. DaNita Bell. CD is available @ www.baeckermusic.citymax.com
John is featured on Acoustic Chicago on the Stonecutters Record Label. CD is available @ www.acoustic-chicago.com
His first solo release, Watching for Watchung Plaza has received critical acclaim from Detroit Free Press music critic, Mark Stryker. CD is available online at www.amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and itunes. |
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