COOPER, JEROME

COOPER, JEROME. Jazz drummer (14 December 1946 in Chicago, Illinois). He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois, where he studied with Oliver Coleman and Walter Dyett at DuSable High School; and at the Chicago Loop Junior College (1967-68). During his college year he worked with Oscar Brown, Jr. During the early 1970s he worked primarily in Europe with various groups, including Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1970-71, with whom he went to Europe...