Richard Cook (journalist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Cook (journalist)

British writer and journalist

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1957

Place of Birth: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Aug-2007

Profession: author, editor, journalist, radio personality, music journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Richard Cook (journalist)

  • Richard David Cook (7 February 1957 – 25 August 2007) was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive.
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  • Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey, and lived in west London as an adult.
  • He was co-author, with Brian Morton, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly ...on CD), which lasted for ten editions until 2010.
  • Richard Cook's Jazz Companion and It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off the Record were published in 2005. A writer on music from the late 1970s until he died, he was a contributor to the NME (often writing confused reviews of punk and new wave artists when venturing away from jazz), the jazz critic for The Sunday Times and later a music writer for the New Statesman.
  • Cook was formerly editor of The Wire, when it was a jazz-centred periodical (it broadened its coverage towards the end of his editorship), and edited Jazz Review magazine from its foundation in 1998.
  • Jazz Review continued for a time after his death, using Cook's approach to the music as continuing inspiration; it did not name a specific successor (Morton) for six months.
  • Cook also presented a programme on jazz for BBC local radio GLR. Cook was the UK jazz catalogue manager for PolyGram (1992–97) and also produced albums by the trumpeter Guy Barker.
  • During his spell at PolyGram, Cook launched the short-lived 'Redial' re-issue line of classic British jazz albums.
  • In 2002, he was responsible for issuing a 10 CD limited-edition set by the American avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor of 1990 recordings, 2Ts for a Lovely T, which was on the Codanza label. Cook died of cancer on 25 August 2007, aged 50, in London.

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