Danny Barker Smithsonian Interview Block 634 (Q14200)

Professor Cook? I don't know his first. It'll come to me, but I ain't, we ain't go time to find it. It's two different Cooks. One couldn't read no music and barely could read and write. That was Professor Cook. Doc Cook was a man who had different degrees from music, higher bred and higher learned and highly calculated. He ended up going to New York City and was a staff arranger for NBC.