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BB Cooper

BB studied piano from the age of six, starting to write piano pieces at eight.

Composing for film, she specializes in haunting, lyrical themes and variations for piano.

As a songwriter, BB writes in English and French and occasionally collaborates with lyricists. To date she has a vast catalogue of songs recorded by jazz singers and performed in shows.

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Album Review

BB Cooper: Uneasy Street

Read "Uneasy Street" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Ms. BB Cooper is first and foremost a songwriter whose tunes lend themselves to interpretation by a wide variety of singers and instrumentalists. For Uneasy Street, two of Britain's premiere vocalists, Barb Jungr and Ian Shaw, are well-chosen to show another side of Cooper's emotive pen. While her last offering, The Best of British Vocal Jazz, was heavily dosed with fresh, sparkling performances, Uneasy Street is a dual-gender take on life's flip side. Here, Cooper's music makes it possible for ...

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"BB Cooper hearkens back to a time when names like Berlin, Rodgers or Bacharach were equal in importance to those of the band and the singer. There is no one else in the mainstream, or any stream for that matter, who is able to release albums comprised entirely of their own new music and have it performed as eloquently."

"BB Cooper also draws from a myriad of styles that include Latin, cool, swing, classical, soul and the blues."

- Elliott Simon, All About Jazz

Music

How Late It Is

From: The Music of BB Cooper...
By BB Cooper

Saracubana

From: Saracubana - The Stewart Curtis...
By BB Cooper

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