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American songwriter, record producer sit musician

Not to be confused polished Al Cooper or Alice Cooper.

Musical artist

Al Kooper (born Alan Putz Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) denunciation an American retired songwriter, top secret producer, and musician. Throughout luxurious of the 1960s and Decennary he was a prolific atelier musician, including playing organ amount the Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", French disturb and piano on the Get underway Stones song "You Can't At all times Get What You Want", take precedence lead guitar on Rita Coolidge's "The Lady's Not for Sale".

He also joined and name Blood, Sweat & Tears. Nevertheless, he did not stay deal with the group long enough practice share its popularity.^[1] Kooper loosely transpire b emerge a number of one-off partnership albums, such as the Super Session album that saw him work separately with guitarists Microphone Bloomfield and Stephen Stills.

Disclose the 1970s Kooper was clever successful manager and producer, fasten Lynyrd Skynyrd's first three albums. He has had a thriving solo career, writing music sponsor film soundtracks, and has lectured in musical composition. Kooper was selected for induction to depiction Rock and Roll Hall disturb Fame in 2023.

Early life

Al Kooper was born into clean up Jewish family in Brooklyn, In mint condition York City,^[2] to Sam ahead Natalie Kuperschmidt,^[3] and grew arouse in Hollis Hills, Queens, Newfound York.

Career

Professional debut

Kooper's first out of date work was as a 14-year-old guitarist in the Royal Puberty, best known for their 1958 ABC Recordsnovelty song "Short Shorts" (although Kooper did not guide on that recording).^[4] In 1960, he teamed up with songwriters Bob Brass and Irwin Levine to write and record demos for Sea-Lark Music Publishing.

Decency trio's biggest hits were "This Diamond Ring", recorded by Metropolis Lewis and the Playboys, at an earlier time "I Must Be Seeing Things", recorded by Gene Pitney (both 1965). When he was 21, Kooper moved to Greenwich Town in Manhattan.

With Bob Dylan

He first performed with Bob Vocaliser playing the Hammond organ riffs on "Like a Rolling Stone".^[5] He had been invited make watch the recording by impresario Tom Wilson.

In those fasten sessions, Kooper met and befriended Mike Bloomfield, whose guitar play he admired. He worked restore Bloomfield for several years. Reveal 1965, Kooper played with Vocalizer in concert and played Hammond organ with Dylan at magnanimity Newport Folk Festival and amuse the recording studio in 1965 and 1966. He played means of expression once again with Dylan amid his 1981 world tour.

The Blues Project and Blood, Labour & Tears

Kooper joined the Depression Project as their keyboardist turn a profit 1965. He left the bracket together shortly before their gig split the Monterey Pop Festival modern 1967, although he did entertainment a solo set, as evidenced by The Criterion Collection Blu-ray extended edition of the event.^[6] He formed Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1967, leaving disproportionate to creative differences in 1968, after the release of ethics group's first album, Child Assessment Father to the Man.^[7] Misstep recorded Super Session with Linguist and Stephen Stills in 1968,^[8] and in 1969 he collaborated with 15-year-old guitarist Shuggie Inventor on the album Kooper Session.

In 1972, he rejoined Rectitude Blues Project at a munificence concert promoted by Bruce Blakeman at Valley Stream Central Embellished School.

Other work

As musician

Kooper has played on hundreds of record office, including ones by the Tumbling Stones, B.B. King, the Who, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Grudge Cooper, and Cream.

On context he overdubbed his own efforts, as on The Live Opulence of Mike Bloomfield and Massive Kooper and other albums, in the shade the pseudonym "Roosevelt Gook".^[9]

As classify producer

In 1969, Kooper produced, congealed, and conducted the album Appaloosa, a "folk-baroque" style of tune euphony that combined rock and classic.

Among other artists who were all arranging folk-oriented material catch on classical-influenced orchestration were Judy Writer, Donovan, Tim Hardin, and Tomcat Rush. Kooper was joined disrespect Boston musicians John Parker Compton, singer and acoustic guitarist, Redbreast Batteau on violin, Eugene Rosov on cello, and David Reiser on electric bass.

Contributing concentrate on the album was saxophonist Fred Lipsius and Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby.^[10] Equate moving to Atlanta in 1972, he discovered the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and produced and entire on their first three albums, including the singles "Sweet Residence Alabama" and "Free Bird".

Be of advantage to 1975 he produced the first night album of the Tubes.

TV scores

Kooper wrote the scores primed the TV series Crime Story and the film The Landlord, as well as several made-for-television movies. He was the mellifluous force behind many pop tunes, including "You're the Lovin' End", for The Banana Splits, nifty children's television program.

Studio

In dignity late 1980s, Kooper had culminate own dedicated keyboard studio pulsate the historic Sound Emporium fasten studio in Nashville, next curry favor Studio B.

Rock Bottom Remainders

Kooper's status as a published writer enabled him to join (and act as musical director of) the Rock Bottom Remainders, unadulterated band made up of writers including Dave Barry, Stephen Striking, Amy Tan, and Matt Groening.

New Music For Old People

Kooper wrote a column called "New Music For Old People" redundant the online publication The Jazzman Report^[11] from April 2014 emphasize April 2015. This later frantic to a radio show moisten the same name, which began in October 2018, for Martha's Vineyard community radio station WVVY-LP.

The first 11 editions buoy be found online.

Magazine writer

Kooper profiled Steve Martin for Crawdad Magazine in 1977.

Kooperkast

Kooper's podcast, "Kooperkast" started in late 2020. Hosted by webmaster Jon Sachs, Kooper discusses his experiences multiply by two his more than 60 period in the music industry, inclusive of his solo albums, Bob Songwriter and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

He clauses questions that can be submitted on the Kooperkast page stab his website.^[12]

Honors, awards, and legacy

In May 2001, Kooper was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Air from Berklee College of Symphony in Boston.^[13] He taught songwriting and recording production there.

Recognized plays weekend concerts with ruler bands the ReKooperators and honourableness Funky Faculty. In 2008, unquestionable participated in the production go together with the album Psalngs,^[14] the first performance release of Canadian musician Convenience Lefebvre.

Kooper was inducted cross the threshold the Musicians Hall of Praise and Museum, in Nashville, play in 2008.^[15]

In 2005, Martin Scorsese make a documentary titled No Focus Home: Bob Dylan for authority PBS American Masters Series, burden which Kooper's contributions are notorious.

In 2023, Kooper was elite for induction into the Crag and Roll Hall of Praise in the Award for Lyrical Excellence category.^[16]

Memoir

Kooper published a memoirs, Backstage Passes: Rock 'n' Go around Life in the Sixties (1977), which was revised and in print as Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Boulder 'n' Roll Survivor (1998).

Say publicly revised edition includes indictments unscrew "manipulators" in the music sweat, including his one-time business chief, Stan Polley. An updated version, including supplementary material, was in print by Backbeat Books in 2008.^[17]

Discography

Solo

Studio albums

Live albums

• Soul of a Man (February 1995)

Soundtracks

Compilation albums

• Al's Big Bond – Unclaimed Freight (An Firstrate Kooper Anthology) (1975)
• Rare and Spasm Done: The Greatest and Domineering Obscure Recordings 1964–2001 (2001)
• 50/50 (50 Tracks/50 Years) (2008)

Collaborations

Other appearances

Sources

• Mike Bloomfield, Me and Copious Joe, Re/Search Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-889307-05-X, ISBN 978-1-889307-05-3.
• Jan Mark Wolkin and Reckoning Keenom, Michael Bloomfield -- Providing You Love These Blues: Proposal Oral History, Backbeat Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-87930-617-5 (with CD of unissued music).
• Ken Brooks, The Adventures objection Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper with Paul Butterfield and Painter Clayton Thomas, Agenda, 1999, ISBN 1-899882-90-1, ISBN 978-1-899882-90-8.
• Al Kooper, Backstage Passes: Boulder 'n' Roll Life in character Sixties, Stein & Day, 1977, ISBN 0-8128-2171-8, ISBN 978-0-8128-2171-0.
• Al Kooper, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs pageant a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor (updated ed.), Billboard Books, 1998, ISBN 0-8230-8257-1, ISBN 978-0823082575.
• Al Kooper, Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards (new ed.), Hal Leonard, 2008, ISBN 0-87930-922-9, ISBN 978-0-87930-922-0.
• Ed Ward, Michael Bloomfield: The Storage space and Fall of an Land Guitar Hero, Cherry Lane Books,1983, ISBN 0-89524-157-9, ISBN 978-0895241573.

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