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Willie Cook
real name John Cook.
Tangipahoa, United States
Willie Cook is credited on 904 releases across 201 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
904
Credits
201
Albums
8
Decades active
157
In collections
Biography
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American jazz trumpet player
Born November 11, 1923 in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, died September 22, 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
904 releases · 201 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 1,141
- Other credits · 61
Studios: Newport Jazz Festival · Pasadena Civic Auditorium · Columbia 30th Street Studio · The Blue Note, Chicago
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ellington Indigos
1958
Money Jungle
1962
Ellington At Newport
1956
Masterpieces By Ellington
1951
First Time! The Count Meets The Duke
1962
Ellington Uptown
1953
Such Sweet Thunder
1957
Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
1949
Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete)
1999
The Best Of The Song Books
1993
The Intimate Ellington
1977
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
1957
Ellington '55
1954
The Duke Ellington Songbook
1980
The World Of Duke Ellington Volume 3
1976
Primping For The Prom
1968
Festival Session
1960
At Newport
1956
Verve Jazz Masters 4
1994
The Essential Duke Ellington
1990
The 1950's -The Singers
1987
All Star Road Band
1984
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
Kansas City 6
1982
Frequent collaborators
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Various
- Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra
- Johnny Hodges
- Ella Fitzgerald
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