Jerry Coker
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Jerry Coker
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Jerry Coker was an American jazz saxophonist and pedagogue. Coker was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Indiana University in the early 1950s, but interrupted his studies in 1953 when Woody Herman offered him a job in "The Herd". Coker eventually earned undergraduate and graduate degrees while he taught jazz at Sam Houston State University. He recorded under his own name in the mid-1950s and as a sideman with Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, and Mel Lewis; later that decade he played with Stan K
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American jazz saxophonist (1932–2024)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coker
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2024-02-20T11:09:21Z
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