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Charles L. Cooke (September 3, 1891 – December 25, 1958), known as Doc Cook, was an American jazz bandleader and arranger. Cook was a Doctor of Music, awarded by the Chicago Musical College in 1926.The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
The ensemble recorded under several names, such as Cookie's Gingersnaps, Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation, and Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra. Among those who played in Cook's band were Freddie Keppard, Jimmie Noone, Johnny St. Cyr, Zutty Singleton, , Andrew Hilaire, and Luis Russell. at Allmusic.com After 1927 Cook's orchestra played in Chicago at the Navy Pier and the White City Ballroom.
In 1930, Cook moved to New York City and worked as an arranger for Radio City Music Hall and RKO, working there into the 1940s. On Broadway theatre, he had a number of important orchestration credits, including The Hot Mikado (1939) and the first U.S. production of The Boy Friend in collaboration with Ted Royal in 1954. Internet Broadwat Database listing A proponent of ragtime, he also worked frequently with Eubie Blake, supplying the arrangements for the 1952 revival of Shuffle Along.Steven Suskin, The Sound of Broadway Music, Oxford University Press, New York, 2009, p. 82
1923-27 - Freddie Keppard, The Complete Set 1923-26 (Retrieval RTR79017, 2005). The CD contains the 6 Gennett and the 4 Okeh sides plus 8 Columbia, all with Keppard on cornet.
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Cook recorded 6 sides for Gennett Records in early 1924, as Cook's Dreamland Orchestra , then 4 sides for OKeh Records in June 1926 as Cookie's Gingersnaps. In July 1926 Doc Cook signed to Columbia Records, with which recorded 14 sides 6 through March 1928.
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