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| India Cooke (2009) | |
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| Violinist, composer and educator India Cooke performs nationally and internationally in a wide variety of settings: doing improv, jazz, classical, be it inside or outside.
Born in Durham, North Carolina, she has played with everyone from Cecil Taylor and Pharoah Sanders to Sun Ra and George Lewis. As one of Northern California?s premier contract players, she has performed as featured soloist with Joe Williams, Louie Bellson, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles. Her Debut album as a leader in 1997, ?Redhanded?, was a Grammy nominee. She was Artist-in-Residence at the San Francisco School for the Arts, and currently teaches at the SF Community Music Center, at Mills College, and privately. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Barbara Cooke | Sometimes I Feel | Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child | Available via CD Baby |
| # 2 | Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer | Short Trip Home | Short Trip Home | (Sony) |
| # 3 | The Swingle Singers | Jazz Sebastian Bach | Fugue in D Minor | (Philips) |
| # 4 | James Brown | 20 Greatest Hits | Cold Sweat, Part 1 | (Polydor) |
| # 5 | Julius Hemphill | JAH to the JAH Band (LP) | The Hard Blues | (Minor Music) |
| # 6 | Joëlle Léandre and India Cooke | Firedance | Firedance No. 1 | (Red Toucan) |
| # 7 | Astor Piazzolla | Luna | Luna | (Hemisphere) |
| # 8 | Freddie Hubbard | The Best of Freddie Hubbard on CTI | Red Clay | (Columbia Legacy) |
| # 9 | The India Cooke-Bill Crossman Duo | Rada | Rada 1 | Available from the artists: e-mail to indiac@earthlink.net, or to willcross@aol.com |
| Book | Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn" | |||
| Luxury Item | The QE II | |||
| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |