Any Bob Cooper Recomendations other than "Coop!"

[Jazztropic]

Looking for any good west coast by Bob Cooper any thoughts

[brownie]

Too bad the Mosaic box 'Kenton Presents' is not available anymore. It had some excellent Bob Cooper sides (plus a lot of other goodies).

One Bob Cooper I have enjoyed is the Fresh Sound album 'For All We Know', a 1995 date with Lou Levy on piano, Monty Budwig on bass and Ralph Penland on drums. Highly recommended!

[Jim R]

My first exposure to him (and still a favorite) was his appearance on Barney Kessel's "Kessel Plays Standards" (Contemporary / OJC). His oboe work on that is particularly outstanding.

[sidewinder]

The Bob Cooper/Bud Shank 'Blowin' Country', if you can find it. Came out as a 'West Coast Classic' as part of that limited series of Conns.

[Alfred]

Too bad the Mosaic box 'Kenton Presents' is not available anymore. It had some excellent Bob Cooper sides (plus a lot of other goodies).

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You'll be happy with the Shank/Cooper Select which is still in print:

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[Larry Kart]

Cooper's final studio album "For All We Know" (Fresh Sound) -- rec. 1990 with Lou Levy, Monty Budwig, and Ralph Penland -- is the best playing I've ever heard from him, often heartbreakingly soulful, as though he were thinking of June Christy (who died about two months before this date). Cooper also is in fine form, as is his frontline partner, on "The Bob Cooper-Conte Candoli Quintet" (VSOP -- rec. live in 1993, only two weeks before Cooper's death from a heart attack), but I'm not crazy about the bass-drum team here (John Leitham and Paul Kreibich). The rhythm section on "For All We Know" is in a different league.