Lindsay L. Cooper

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For the bassoon player of the same name, see Lindsay Cooper.

Lindsay L. Cooper (1940 - 2001) was a Scottish double-bass and cello player. He spent four years working as a ship's musician and has performed and recorded with a number of other musicians and bands, including Derek Bailey, Mike Oldfield and The Strawbs.

[edit] Biography

Cooper was born in Glasgow on 18 January 1940. He moved to London in 1965 where he became a professional musician. From 1965 to 1967 and again in 1970 Cooper worked as a ship's musician on the Queen Mary and P&O passenger liner ships. In 1972 and 1973, Cooper studied music with British double bassist and teacher Peter Ind. In 1978 he moved to Zürich, Switzerland, but returned to Scotland in 1990 where he ran a free improvisation workshop in Edinburgh.

Cooper performed and recorded with many musicians, including Evan Parker, Keith Tippett, Mike Oldfield, Derek Bailey, Kenny Wheeler, Ken Colyer, Bobby Bradford and Lol Coxhill. He also recorded with a number of jazz, rock and folk groups, including The Strawbs and the Bill Wells Octet.

His main musical influences included Thelonious Monk, King Oliver and Derek Bailey. Cooper died in Edinburgh in 2001.

[edit] Selected discography

Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells (1973)
Ken Hyder’s Talisker, Dreaming of Glenisla (1975)
Amalgam, Innovation (1975)
Spontaneous Music Orchestra, SME+=SMO (1975)
Day & Taxi, All (1992)
Christoph Gallio, Cars & Variations / High Desert Songs (1994)
Andy Shanks/Jim Russell, Diamonds In The Night (1997)
Pearlfishers, Across The Milky Way (2001)
Bill Wells Octet/Lol Coxhill, Bill Wells Octet meets Lol Coxhill (2002)
The Strawbs, Strawbs Live in Tokyo DVD, plus Grave New World, the movie (2003)