Jacki Cooper
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Jacki Cooper is an exciting performer who has been living and
working all over the world, and now calls Sydney home. She
earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz voice in 1993 at Adelaide’s
prestigious Elder Conservatorium and released 2 independant
CD’s ! Jacki Cooper and Friends (2000) and Love For Sale
(2002) before teaming up with drummer John Morrison in 2006 to
record a live album at Thredbo Jazz Festival with their New
GenerationQuintet.
Early in her career, Jacki recorded and performed regularly with
legendary jazz composer, Dave Dallwitz, enabling her to also
work with Australian jazz greats, Graeme Bell and Ade
Monsborough.
In 1994, Jacki was invited to teach jazz voice for the world-
renowned Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University in
California. During this time, she gigged regularly with local San
Francisco musicians, sang on Fog in the City Radio with the
Harvey Wainapel Quintet, and performed with the Jim Cullum
Jazz Band at the famous Landing Jazz Club on the Riverwalk in
San Antonio, Texas. While in the USA, Jacki studied voice with a
bevy of renowned jazz singers including Mark Murphy and Betty
Carter, and also took instruction from musicians Mulgrew Miller,
John Clayton and Lewis Nash.
Always ready to hit the road to sing, Jacki has toured Europe,
Russia and Scandinavia with an 8 piece swing band, and sung
with jazz luminaries in the USA, Vietnam and China, as well as
Australia of course. A highlight was performing in New York City
in March 2009.
Recently married to drummer and big band leader, John
Morrison, they are both dedicated jazz educators who travel
around Australia teaching and performing at schools, lecturing at
Jazz Camp, and spreading the word of jazz. Together, they
formed a band called New Generation as a vehicle for promoting
young up-and-coming talent in Sydney. Their 2nd recording
collaboration “Mood Swings” is still a work in progress and will
be released in early 2010.
