July 15, the Jim Cooper Quartet performed at the Saugatuck Douglas Library Celebrating Lakeshore Jazz Connection concerts in Saugatuck, MI. Cooper was interviewed and performed to a packed house. Also in the group was pianist Steve Talaga, bassist John Webber…

Cooper and the CJC performed at the 2023 South Haven Jazz (MI) Festival in Sept.  They performed songs by Cedar Walton, Bob Dogan and Cooper.

I played piano with Kenny Cooper's Tribute to Louis Armstrong Band last September.

Kenny Cooper on trumpet, Tim King on bass and Jim Allen on drums.

My quartet performed at the 2022 South Haven Jazz Festival in September.

Jim, Lisa Sung, John Webber and Yurina Garcia.

I am writing a new song after hitting a deer and totaling my van in Kalamazoo.

I HIT A DEER IN KALAMAZOO

A B C D E F G H, I hit a deer in Kalamazoo

Don’t want to boast…

Interview with Ron DeKett from the The Herald-Palladium newspaper in St. Joseph, MI, regarding performing at the South Haven Jazz Festival last September.  It never got printed, so here it is.

RD:  What does the vibraphone bring to jazz…

My tune, "Mallethead," which was recorded on Delmark's 1992 recording, "Nutville," was included in the first ever Chicago Jazz fakebook entitled, "The City Was Yellow, Chicago Jazz and Improvised music 1980-2010."  Many Chicago musician/composers are included and I'm honored to…

 Jim Cooper and Nexus explores the more contemporary side of jazz with a quartet of vibes, sax, bass and drums and will be performing at the 2019 South Haven Jazz Festival in downtown South Haven, Michigan.

In the group with…

April CD release party for Jeff Haas and friends. So much fun and the jazz coffee is always great.

Miriam Pico, Laurie Sear, Lisa Flahive, Jeff Haas, Jack Dryden, Nancy Stagnita, Don Julan, Jim Cooper and Randy Marsh

Got to play with one of my favorite organists, Bill Heid.  Thanks Randy Marsh for bringing him into the Speakeasy.  What a great time.