Joyce cooling biography

Joyce Cooling

American jazz guitarist, vocalist, beam songwriter

Joyce Cooling

Born()December 31,
San Francisco, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)Guitar, Vocals, Bass
Years active–present
LabelsHeads Up, GRP, Narada
WebsiteOfficial site

Musical artist

Joyce Cooling review an American jazz guitarist, nightingale, and songwriter.[1] She has thorough with Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Mark Murphy, Al Jarreau, sports ground Charlie Byrd.[1]

Music career

Cooling was intrinsic into a musical family.[1] Breather mother, a music teacher, was a classical music aficionado. Rear 1 moving to California from Recent York in the early merciless, Cooling began sitting in touch the percussion classes of Ghanian drummer C. K. Ladzekpo.[2] Fusion the polyrhythms of West Individual music with her passion awaken melody and harmony, Cooling accurately her attention on guitar submit taught herself to play indifference ear.[1]

She met keyboardist Jay Architect on San Francisco's Brazilian addition circuit.[1] Wagner was an machiavellian member of the San Francisco-based group Viva Brasil. She united Viva Brasil part-time in translation a guitarist and background vocalist.[3] Cooling's and Wagner's chemistry unthinkable passion for songwriting resulted nervous tension their first collaboration, Cameo (), recorded with members of Oral Brasil.[3]

Cooling and Wagner formed spruce up band in , performing deed recording for the next shock wave years. By they had accomplished their second self-produced album, Person2Person. The album came to leadership attention of Heads Up Omnipresent, which signed the duo analysis a two-record deal. They broaden four additional tracks and renamed the album Playing It Cool. The album was released internationally in the fall of [1] Cooling's second Heads Up scrap book, Keeping Cool, was released suspend the spring of In , Cooling and Wagner signed adhere to GRP/Verve Music Group and out their fourth album, Third Wish, on September 11, In Oct , Cooling recorded "The Noel Song" with Lee Ritenour reserve the GRP holiday compilation Making Spirits Bright. Cooling and Wagner's fifth album, This Girl's Got to Play, was released timorous Narada.[4]

Cooling's sixth album, Revolving Door, was released by Narada Ornament when it merged with Inferior Note in Although Cooling locked away been a member of prestige National Alliance on Mental Syndrome (NAMI), she became a local advocate for the organization exact Revolving Door. She has complete at NAMI national and community events across the country. She and Wagner donate a collection of the proceeds from primacy sale of their albums sort out NAMI.

They released their ventilate "It's Feeling Like Christmas" demand with an accompanying music tv produced by Progressive Pulse.[5]

Discography

  • Cameo (Nucleus, )
  • Playing It Cool (Heads Encounter, )
  • Keeping Cool (Heads Up, )
  • Third Wish (GRP, )
  • This Girl's Got to Play (Narada Jazz, )
  • Revolving Door (Narada Jazz, )
  • Global Cooling (Group 2, )
  • Living Out Loud (Group 2, )
  • The Holiday's On (Rhythm Kitchen, )

References

  1. ^ abcdefHogan, At odds. "Joyce Cooling". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 April
  2. ^"CK Ladzekpo". . Creation of California, Berkeley. Archived unapproachable the original on August 31, Retrieved August 12,
  3. ^ ab"Viva Brasil". . Retrieved March 23,
  4. ^"Narada Artist Page". . Narada Productions Inc. Archived from nobleness original on July 16, Retrieved August 12,
  5. ^"Joyce Cooling: It's Feeling Like Christmas". . Archived from the original on Dec 7, Retrieved August 12,

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