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Buster Cooper
real name George Cooper
St. Petersburg, United States
Buster Cooper is credited on 687 releases across 149 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
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Albums
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Decades active
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Biography
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Buster Cooper (born April 4, 1929, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA – died May 13, 2016) was an American jazz trombonist.
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Credited work
687 releases · 149 albums · active 1955–2025
- Performance · 1,046
- Other credits · 13
Studios: RCA Studio A · RCA Victor Studios, New York · Universal Recording Studio · RPM International Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits
1967
Francis A. & Edward K.
1968
Ella At Duke's Place
1966
Ellington '66
1965
"...And His Mother Called Him Bill"
1968
Windows Of The Mind
1974
The Great Paris Concert
1973
Second Sacred Concert
1970
The Popular Duke Ellington
1966
Plays With The Original Motion Picture Score Mary Poppins
1964
Smooth Sailing
1961
Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years
1997
Verve Jazz Masters 4
1994
Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
1992
The Best Of Chess Jazz
1989
The Feeling Of Jazz
1988
Guess Who's In Town
1987
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
The Shouters
1980
History Of Jazz
1978
Juggernaut
1977
Recollections Of The Big Band Era
1974
Antibes Concert
1967
Concert In The Virgin Islands
1965
Frequent collaborators
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Various
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Johnny Hodges
- Dollar Brand
- Mundell Lowe
- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
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