Jazz Articles about Geoff Cooke

About Geoff Cooke

Album Review

Keyboardist Ryan Burns possesses a distinctive artistry, one that is integral to the success of the sound of the Matt Jorgensen + 451 group on sets such as Hope (Origin Records, 2004) and Another Morning (Origin Records, 2008), and with trumpeter Thomas Marriott on the strange and stellar Crazy:The Music of Willie Nelson (Origin Records, 2008). Burns also works as a leader on the acoustic piano trio set Tree-O (Odd Bird Records, 2007), and now on the plugged-in Birds. A ...

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Ryan Burns / Geoff Cooke / Jose Martinez: Tree-O

Read "Tree-O" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 14, 2007

Tree-O, a Ryan Burns-led piano trio affair, caught me by surprise. I was already familiar with Burns' work with Matt Jorgensen + 451 on the CD Hope (Origin Records, '04) and an excellent live show with that group at Dizzy's in San Diego, so I thought this effort would fall into the forward-lean/electric keyboard category. But it's an acoustic set, a genuine tip of the hat to the piano trio's past.The opener, “Gettin' Red-y (for Red Garland)," sets ...

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The Geoff Cooke Quintet: See You at the Bridge

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2003

Whenever a bassist leads a quintet recording one of two things is possible: he is either (a) smarter or (b) dumber than the other players. I don’t know Geoff Cooke’s I.Q. but his credentials are quite impressive -- B.S. in music from the University of Colorado (Cooke hails from Denver), classes with Reggie Workman at the New School in NYC, an NEA fellowship for private study with Buster Williams, performance credits with Kevin Mahogany, Jack Walrath, Holly Hoffman, Greg Abate, ...