Michael Cooke:
CLASS OF 1988
Dunwoody High SchoolClass of 1988
Dunwoody, GA
University of North Texas - MusicClass of 1993
Denton, TX
Michael's Story
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The multi-instrumentalist Michael Cooke heads up the CKW Trio, with his aggressive tenor saxophone style. This Louis Armstrong Jazz Award winner mainly plays tenor, but you will also hear him play soprano sax, alto sax, flute, bass clarinet, bassoon and percussion. Michael started playing jazz in High school where he played for homeless shelters in Atlanta. A cum laude music graduate University of North Texas, Michael has played in Europe, Mexico and all over the United States. Relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, he is striving to develop his s...Expand for more
tyle and has recently started studying Larry Ochs Radar composition techniques. Denise Berardini of the San Francisco Beacon describes Michael's talented sax flowing out color and tone with such feeling I havent heard in quite a while. Michael plays with such dimension and flavor, that it sets (his) sound apart from the rest. Uncompromising, fiery, complex, passionate, and cathartic is how the All Music Guide labeled Michaels playing on Searching by Cooke Quartet and Statements by Michael Cooke. His latest CD is entitled "The Is" by the CKW Trio.
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