JERRY COKER

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American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, born 28 November 1932 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. Retired after many years on the jazz faculty of The University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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A highly respected instructor, theorist, and author, Jerry Coker's early career was spent playing in such big bands as Woody Herman's. He interrupted his studies at Indiana University to join Herman in late 1953, then toured with him until the summer of 1954. He made some recordings in Paris and San Francisco as a leader, and as a sideman with Mel Lewis in the late '50s; he then became a freelance player on the West Coast. Coker had a short stint with Stan Kenton, then began an involvement with college bands in the '60s which led to him holding various teaching posts. He's written several jazz books, and at one point in the '80s, was a professor at the University
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JERRY COKER Modern Music From Indiana University album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Modern Music From Indiana University
Bop 1956
JERRY COKER Drones for Improvisation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Drones for Improvisation
Jazz Education 1985
JERRY COKER Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor
Jazz Education 1991
JERRY COKER Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Complete Method for Improvisation: For All Instruments
Jazz Education 1997

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JERRY COKER Recorded In Concert With The Frank Sullivan Trio . . . A Re-emergence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Recorded In Concert With The Frank Sullivan Trio . . . A Re-emergence
Post Bop 1984
JERRY COKER Rebirth album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rebirth
Post Bop 1986

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JERRY COKER Composes-Arranges-Plays Modern Music album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Composes-Arranges-Plays Modern Music
Bop 2017

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