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Gloria Cooper has the rare distinction of having blended - in her professional life - the artistic with the academic and the instrumental with the vocal.

She has performed as a pianist and singer - throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan - in a variety of settings and with the likes of Eddie Harris, David "Fathead" Newman, Eddie Henderson, and Donald Bailey. All About Jazz has written of her "consumate vocalizing" and said, "At the keyboard she displays excellent technique, a masterful touch, flawless time, and a comprehensive post-bop vocabulary..."

Gloria Cooper holds a doctorate in music and education from Columbia University and is an Associate Professor of Music at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. As a performer/educator, Dr. Cooper has over twenty years of experience teaching clinics, camps and workshops and has written on singing, jazz phrasing and related topics.

Gloria began playing piano at the age of five. She grew up in Missouri and completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Missouri. She lived in San Francisco from 1972-1988, where she played for twelve years at the Hyatt On Union Square and in a number of jazz clubs.

Day By Day, on the GAC label, is Gloria Cooper's debut recording. Her quietly expressive vocals and sensitive yet swinging piano playing work at the service of an intriguing collection of jazz and popular tunes, most of which are rarely performed. Included are tunes by Kenny Dorham, Bertha Hope, Curtis Lundy, Duke Ellington, Sammy Cahn, Rodgers and Hart and more. She is joined on the recording by a top-notch group of players - Eddie Henderson on trumpet, Ron McClure on bass, and Yoron Israel on drums.

Publications include:

Sing Jazz published by Second Floor Music: New York (2002)

Jazz Phrasing: A Workshop for the Jazz Vocalist published
by Second Floor Music: New York (2004)