Jerry Coker
Jerry Coker (born November 28, 1932) is an American jazz saxophonist and pedagogue. Coker was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Indiana University in the early 1950s, but left school to become a member of Woody Herman's Herd. Coker eventually earned undergraduate and graduate degrees while he taught jazz at Sam Houston State University (then Sam Houston State Teachers College). He recorded under his own name in the mid-1950s and as a sideman with Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, and Mel Lewis; later that decade he played with Stan Kenton. In 1960 he began teaching and increasingly turned to music education and composition. He taught at Duke University, University of Miami, North Texas State University, and started the Studio Music and Jazz program at the University of Tennessee, where he was a professor of music from the 1980s through the 2000s. |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1932 (South Bend)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1954
Roles Represented in DAHR: tenor saxophone
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 86217 | 4/28/1954 | I only have eyes for you | Fred Dale Orchestra | instrumentalist, tenor saxophone | |||
Decca | 86218 | 4/28/1954 | Laura | Fred Dale Orchestra | instrumentalist, tenor saxophone | |||
Decca | 86219 | 4/28/1954 | Mean to me | Fred Dale Orchestra | instrumentalist, tenor saxophone | |||
Decca | 86220 | 4/28/1954 | Ginger | Fred Dale Orchestra | instrumentalist, tenor saxophone |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Coker, Jerry," accessed April 18, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/309056.
Coker, Jerry. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/309056.
"Coker, Jerry." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 18 April 2024.
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External Sources
Wikipedia: Jerry Coker
Discogs: Jerry Coker
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Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Coker, Jerry - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81090572
Wikidata: Jerry Coker - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1341817
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/52426658
MusicBrainz: Jerry Coker - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cd85547d-7f40-4f42-8b0a-fc270053a6a4
ISNI: 0000 0001 1444 0523 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000114440523
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