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Junior Cook

{{Short description|American saxophonist (1934–1992)}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Junior Cook

| image = Junior Cook.jpg

| caption =

| birth_name = Herman Cook

| alias =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|7|22|mf=y}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|2|3|1934|7|22|mf=y}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| origin = Pensacola, Florida, U.S.

| instrument = Saxophone, flute

| genre = Jazz, hard bop

| occupation = Musician

| years_active = 1958-1992

| label =

| associated_acts = Dizzy Gillespie, Blue Mitchell, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard

| website =

}}

Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992){{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=553}} was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player.

Biography

Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. A member of a musical family, he started on alto saxophone before switching to tenor during his high school years.{{cite web |title=Junior Cook at All About Jazz |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=5894 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002030653/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=5894 |archive-date=October 2, 2009 |access-date=August 9, 2008 |publisher=All About Jazz}}

After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook was a member of the Horace Silver Quintet (1958–1964); when Silver left the group in the hands of Blue Mitchell Cook stayed in the quintet for five more years (1964–1969). Later associations included Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, George Coleman, Louis Hayes (1975–1976), Bill Hardman (1979–1989), and the McCoy Tyner big band.

In addition to many appearances as a sideman, Junior Cook recorded as a leader for Jazzland (1961), Catalyst (1977), Muse, and SteepleChase.

He also taught at Berklee School of Music for a year during the 1970s.{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times |access-date = August 9, 2008|title=Junior Cook, 57, Tenor Saxophonist In Jazz Ensembles |url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1D7173CF936A35751C0A964958260|date=February 5, 1992}}

In the early 1990s, Cook was playing with Clifford Jordan, and also leading his own group. He died in February 1992 in his apartment in New York City, aged 57.

Discography

= As leader/co-leader =

= As sideman =

With Horace Silver

With Barry Harris

With Bill Hardman

With Freddie Hubbard

With Clifford Jordan

With Blue Mitchell

With others

References

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Category:1934 births

Category:1992 deaths

Category:Musicians from Pensacola, Florida

Category:American jazz tenor saxophonists

Category:American male saxophonists

Category:Jazz musicians from Florida

Category:Muse Records artists

Category:SteepleChase Records artists

Category:20th-century American saxophonists

Category:20th-century American male musicians

Category:American male jazz musicians