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- What is your profession?
- singer, actor
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- Voice
- Where Are you located?
- New York City
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- friends
- About Me:
- I started singing when I was a child. My first known recordings happened when I was three years old. Over the years I probably made a few others for family and friends, but it took a great many more years to make one that was available in stores and on line.
I’ve always been a jazz singer. My early influences were all female jazz singers who started their careers as big band singers: Ella, Peggy, Sarah, Chris Connor and June Christy. By the time I was 14, I was too; singing with bands and small combos at country clubs and in the last of the old ballrooms left in my home state of Minnesota.
By the time I got to College I was contemplating a life in Musical Comedy having received a Scholarship in Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. Two years later I was off to New York, auditioning and doing a few jazz gigs in clubs in New York and Conn. The idea of the road never felt good to me and when I was offered a job doing some voiceovers for Cremora (both the voice over and the jingle) and not long after that an agent in the voiceover field – well, it seemed that was the answer for me. Certainly, it was at the time and I let voiceover work support singing and the rest of my life.
I have spent well over 25 years as a VO actor and coach. I’ve lived and worked in New York and Los Angeles; and for a time I even ran a chicken farm and sang with a small band of jazz musicians in Jamaica, WI.
I’m currently the National Recording Secretary of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and serve as a Board member on both the National and New York Local Board. A few years ago, I completed the Feldenkrais training, which changed the way I sing, teach and breathe.
In 2003, I released my first CD “Here’s to Life” on the Harlemwood label with the help of my good friends Voza Rivers and Jamal Joseph and my new Harlemwood CD, "It's Always You" will be released in April.
I am a trained actor who is a jazz singer. I am a jazz singer who is a trained actor. What I do is about the song. It is a very direct kind of communication. More than anything I want to touch you so I aim for the heart and the most important thing I can do is sing the truth.
Happy to let you know this is a free event...
please make reservations at the number listed below.
For Reservations call 212.926.2550 – Ext. 21
or visit www.newheritagetheatre.org
Lainie Cooke - vocals
Tedd Firth - piano
Cameron Brown - bass
Matt Wilson - drums
Marvin Horne - guitar
Roland Barber - trombone
and
Joel Frahm - saxes
Wednesday, May 14th
7PM
The Museum of the City of New York
104th & Fifth Avenue
And for those of you who are not able to join us
I hope you will check out the CD which is available now for listening and purchasing at
www.CDbaby.com, www.Amazon.com, and of course, www.lainiecooke.com
"Given the lamentable glut of recordings by female “jazz
singers” who are not, when the real thing comes along
one can’t help but take notice. On her second CD
Lainie Cooke once again presents a program of songs
that more than justifies the acclaim she has received from
people who know a real “jazz singer” when they hear one.
Revolving around the theme of finding and then losing
love, It’s Always You contains no hype nor attitude but
rather resonates with pure emoting backed by the gravitas
only true life experience can endow in an artist."
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I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
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Thanks for contacting me on the Jazz Network. I clicked your website and I'm sitting here listening to you sing. You are wonderful. It's hard to believe that I don't know you. I played with your dad's big band way back in the 70's when he and Duffy were living here on Long Island. (Duffy played drums with that band too.) Duffy was 16 at the time and played his but off even at that young age. We became close friends during that period and even put a quartet together. (Which never really got off the ground, but was always fun.) I visited them when they lived in Miami and and if you have a moment, go to the "Photo Page" of my website and check out some photos that were taken in Miami in the 70's. www.angeladeniro.com. I tried e-mailing the photos at lainie@lainiecooke.com and had no luck. So nice to meet you and thanks for reminding me of some fun times. Your dad was a great guy and perhaps one day I'll share some Chubby/Duffy stories with you. All the best to you and your singing career.
Regards,
Ron Aprea
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Always Love DTD
Cynthia
All the best in all you do. Big hugz and a lot of luv
DK
thanks for reaching out... it sounds as if you've been very busy adn congratulations on the cd's... i've relocated to san diego with my wife and 2 year old daughter about 2 months ago from marina del rey, though i'm still working in ny quite a bit... all the best to you always and please send my love to voza rivers
One of these days we will conect in Mtl.
Lorraine & Geoff
With respect,
Smith Crenshaw
Thanks for adding me to your network!
Keep swingin',
Greg Thomas
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