Jerry Coker (November 28, 1932 – January 14, 2024) was an American jazz saxophonist and pedagogue. Coker was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Indiana...
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progression or the backdoor ii-V, as described by jazz theorist and author Jerry Coker. This name derives from an assumption that the normal progression to...
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How to Play Jazz and Improvise Volume 1 (1970 revision, p. 26), and Jerry Coker claims that David Baker may have been the first educator to organise...
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are also closely related to the altered chord used commonly in jazz. Jerry Coker explains: Tritone substitutions and altered dominants are nearly identical...
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(1987). 1000 Keyboard Ideas, p.75. ISBN 978-0-943748-48-1. Coker, Jerry (1997). Jerry Coker's complete method for improvisation: for all instruments, p...
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primatologist. Dominick Cirillo, 94, American mobster (Genovese crime family). Jerry Coker, 91, American jazz saxophonist. Denis Connaghan, 79, Scottish footballer...
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Barczyk, 54, snake collector and YouTuber (b. 1969) Jerry Coker, 91, jazz saxophonist (b. 1932) Jerry Hilgenberg, 92, football player (Iowa Hawkeyes) (b...
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(5th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 220. ISBN 0072852607. OCLC 51613969. Jerry Coker, Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor (Miami:...
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with the leader for the spotlight is tenor saxophonist Jerry Coker... Together Fischer and Coker accentuate the date's prismatic colors and variegated...
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program. Coker cites Alan Silvestri's score for Forrest Gump and Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter as inspirations to becoming a composer. In 2011, Coker composed...
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