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Jacki Cooper is an exciting Sydney-raised performer who has been living and working in Adelaide since 1989 but recently relocated back to Sydney. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz voice in 1993 at Adelaide’s prestigious Elder Conservatorium under the guidance of Michelle Nicolle.
Before forming her own quartet, Jacki recorded and performed regularly with legendary trad jazz composer, Dave Dallwitz, enabling her to also work with 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, recorded a radio program on Fog in the City Radio with the Harvey Wainapel Quintet, and sang 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. Jacki is a regular performer on the Adelaide and Sydney jazz circuit and in festivals and events
around the country.In 2003, she cruised around Europe as a featured artist on the Oceania Regatta Luxury Liner,
performing with an 8 piece show band. More recently, Jacki has been invited to perform with John Morrison’s Trio in Sydney, and headlined at the famous jazz club, Soup Plus. In April 2005, she was invited to perform at Sax n Art jazz club in Saigon, Vietnam. Jacki formed her quartet of talented musicians in 1998 and has recorded 2 CD’s, Jacki
Cooper and Friends (2000), and Love For Sale (2002).