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Willie Cook

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Gender Male
Death23 years ago
Date of birth November 11,1923
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Tangipahoa
Louisiana
United States
Date of died September 22,2000
DiedStockholm
Sweden
GenresJazz
Music groups Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
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Groups Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
AlbumsThree Suites
Such Sweet Thunder
The Nutcracker Suite
Anatomy of a Murder
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Willie Cook was an American jazz trumpeter. Cook was born in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, on November 11, 1923. He grew up in Chicago and learned to play violin before settling on trumpet as a teenager. He joined King Perry's band in the late 1930s, then joined Jay McShann's band early in the 1940s.

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