Performance
Junior Cook
real name Herman Cook
Pensacola, United States
Junior Cook is credited on 591 releases across 111 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
591
Credits
111
Albums
8
Decades active
177
In collections
Biography
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American jazz saxophonist, born July 22, 1934, in Pensacola, Florida, died February 3, 1992, in New York City.
He has worked with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, George Coleman, and McCoy Tyner.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
591 releases · 111 albums · active 1958–2025
- Performance · 669
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Manhattan Towers · Plaza Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai)
1964
6 Pieces Of Silver
1957
Blowin' The Blues Away
1959
Deciphering The Message
2021
Doin' The Thing - At The Village Gate
1961
Keep Your Soul Together
1973
Down With It
1965
The Thing To Do
1965
Silver's Serenade
1963
The Tokyo Blues
1962
Polar AC
1975
Bring It Home To Me
1967
Beat
1964
Finger Poppin' With The Horace Silver Quintet
1959
A Sample Of Blue Notes
1987
High Energy
1974
Heads Up!
1968
Horace-Scope
1960
Blue Lights, Volume 1
1958
Music Is Here (Live At Studio 104 Maison De La Radio (ORTF) Paris 1973)
2022
Blue Break Beats Volume Two
1993
The Tour Volume One
2016
The Artist Selects
2005
The Complete Blue Note Blue Mitchell Sessions (1963-67)
1998
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