Chris Coogan is a multi-talented entertainer who, as a composer, performer, and producer, is rooted in the jazz and gospel traditions. Coogan performs original and traditional music as a pianist and singer, as the leader of a jazz group, and as director of the Good News Gospel Choir.
For 10 years, Coogan has lead the Chris Coogan Quartet, a combo whose repertoire includes strait-ahead jazz, fusion jazz and boogie-woogie. S'Funky, Coogan's first jazz album containing his original songs, was released in 1995 and re-released in 1999. It features the song Cranberry Isle which took the top jazz prize in the 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Competition.
Coogan's credits as a jazz musician include performing with the late Sal Salvador, Bette Midler, Donna Summer, Paul Newman, Whoopie Goldberg, Jo Ann Woodward, Alec Baldwin, Gene Wilder, Larry Coryell, Dave Liebman, Harold Danko, Ronnie Spector, James Naughton and Phoebe Snow, as well as arranging for Teo Maceo, producer for the late Miles Davis He appeared on television's Celebrity Jeopardy and the Arsenio Hall Show and has performed at Manhattan's Blue Note and the Montreaux Jazz Festival.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.cooganmusic.com
Track List:
1. Little Liza Jane
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
4. Georgia On My Mind
5. What I Couldn't Say
6. Secret Love
7. Acceptance
8. Pennies From Heaven
9. Bein' Here By Your Side
10. Silvermine
11. Ten Thousand Miles
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
For 10 years, Coogan has lead the Chris Coogan Quartet, a combo whose repertoire includes strait-ahead jazz, fusion jazz and boogie-woogie. S'Funky, Coogan's first jazz album containing his original songs, was released in 1995 and re-released in 1999. It features the song Cranberry Isle which took the top jazz prize in the 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Competition.
Coogan's credits as a jazz musician include performing with the late Sal Salvador, Bette Midler, Donna Summer, Paul Newman, Whoopie Goldberg, Jo Ann Woodward, Alec Baldwin, Gene Wilder, Larry Coryell, Dave Liebman, Harold Danko, Ronnie Spector, James Naughton and Phoebe Snow, as well as arranging for Teo Maceo, producer for the late Miles Davis He appeared on television's Celebrity Jeopardy and the Arsenio Hall Show and has performed at Manhattan's Blue Note and the Montreaux Jazz Festival.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.cooganmusic.com
Track List:
1. Little Liza Jane
2. Norwegian Wood
3. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
4. Georgia On My Mind
5. What I Couldn't Say
6. Secret Love
7. Acceptance
8. Pennies From Heaven
9. Bein' Here By Your Side
10. Silvermine
11. Ten Thousand Miles
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo
- JAZZ: Dixieland
- FEATURING PIANO