COOKE, CHARLES L.

COOKE, CHARLES L. (DOC). Jazz arranger (3 September 1891 in Louisville, Kentucky; 25 December 1958 in Wurtsboro, New York). In his early career he was active in Detroit, Michigan. Some time before 1920 he settled in Chicago, Illinois, where he led his own groups in theaters and nightclubs. He obtained his musical education at Chicago Musical College (B. A.), where he studied with Felix Borowski and Victor Saar, and the Chicago College of Music (D. Mus., 1926). In 1930 he settled...