James Kok, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Kok

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1902

Place of Birth: Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1976

Profession: musician, jazz musician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About James Kok

  • Arthur James Kok (January 24, 1902, Czernowitz - October 18, 1976, Berlin) was a Romanian bandleader, violinist, and arranger.
  • He led dance bands that played light music and jazz. Kok learned to play music from his father, a violinist.
  • He also could play saxophone, clarinet, and piano.
  • Later in life, he alleged that he had been raised in the US, but he was born in what is now the Ukraine.
  • At the time, the area was in Austria-Hungary's Duchy of Bukovina, passing to the Kingdom of Romania for the interwar period.
  • He attended the Prague Conservatory and then put a band together in Berlin, which remained active through 1933, toured throughout germanophone Europe, and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon.
  • He left Germany under duress in 1935 and led a new ensemble in Romania, which toured Switzerland in 1938 and Holland in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of war.
  • In 1939 he relocated to Switzerland, where he lived until the late 1950s; he then lived in the United States for much of the 1960s.
  • In 1969 he moved back to Berlin, where he would live out the rest of his life.

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