Marty Cook is an American jazz

Jazz

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 trombonist.

Cook was born in New York

New York

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 and raised in Ohio

Ohio

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, where he began playing trombone at age seven. He played in New York in the late 1960s, recording with Marzette Watts

Marzette Watts

Marzette Watts was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He had a brief career in music but is revered for his 1966 self-titled free jazz release....

 in 1968. He played in a rock band in California from 1971–72 and then returned to New York, playing with Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers , is an American jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano....

 and Ted Daniel. He played in Europe

Europe

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 in 1973-74 with Gunter Hampel

Gunter Hampel

Gunter Hampel is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist and composer born in Göttingen, Germany, perhaps best-known for his album "The 8th of July 1969" that included fellow musicians Anthony Braxton, Willem Breuker and Jeanne Lee...

 and Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished composers and performers which included Gunter Hampel, Ran Blake, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, and many...

. In 1979, he moved to Munich

Munich

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, touring with his ensemble the New York Sound Explosion. Among the members of the group were Monty Waters

Monty Waters

Monty Waters was an American jazz saxophonist , flautist and singer. Waters received his first musical training from his aunt and first played in the church. After his education in college, he was a member of a Rhythm & Blues band...

, Ratzo Harris, Art Lewis

Art Lewis

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, John Betsch

John Betsch

John Betsch is an American jazz drummer.Betsch began on percussion at age nine, and attended Fisk University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After playing in organ trios, he released an album as a leader, Earth Blossom, in 1975...

, Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American ancestry.-Biography:...

, and Essiet Essiet. In the 1980s and 1990s he played with Embryo, Allan Praskin, Günther Klatt (1984), Harry Sokal, and Chris Beier. In the late 1990s he founded the ensemble Conspiracy, alongside Rudi Mahall

Rudi Mahall

Rudi Mahall is a contemporary jazz bass clarinetist.While studying classical clarinet, Mahall shifted towards contemporary music, improvisation and jazz.He is, or was a member of following bands:...

, Aki Takase

Aki Takase

is a critically acclaimed, award-winning Japanese jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:Raised in Tokyo, she studied music at Tohogakuen Music University. Starting in 1978, she performed and recorded in the USA with Lester Bowie, David Liebman, John Zorn and others...

, Betsch, and Ed Schuller

Ed Schuller

Edwin G. Schuller is an American jazz bassist and composer.Schuller was born in New York City; his father is Gunther Schuller and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller. Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child and switched to bass at age 15; that same year he had his first...

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Discography

• 1979: Trance (Circle Records (Germany)
  Circle Records (Germany)
  Circle Records was an Germany based record label specializing in jazz, established in 1976. -Discography:Circle Records was an Germany based record label specializing in jazz, established in 1976. -Discography:...
  
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• 1986: Nightwork (Enja Records
  Enja Records
  Enja Records is a German jazz record label based in Munich, Germany. It was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971....
  
  )
• 1987: Red, White, Black and Blue (Enja)
• 1993: Borderlines (Tutu Records)
• 1994: Phases of the Moon (Tutu)
• 1994: Ibn Battuda with Embryo (Schneeball)
• 1997: Theory of Strange (Enja)