Joyce Cooling

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乔西·柯琳Joyce Cooling是一位杰出的吉他演奏者、作曲家。在新泽西和纽约长大的她，对于各种类型的音乐都有强烈兴趣，并且拥有数目巨大的唱片收藏。“我的收藏不仅有Ornette Coleman及Bill Evans等等，还包括James Brown、Maurice Ravel、Jimi Hendrix、Abbey Lincoln和Aerosmith，以及来自全世界各地的音乐。”她提到：“我喜欢R&B、民谣，也喜欢金属和那些让人狂热的音乐，我也喜爱朋克和说唱。我只是喜欢好的音乐，没有什么特别的限定。”

八十年代初，乔西·柯琳移居到旧金山，并开始涉猎键盘和打击乐器演奏方面，从那时起她就一直对综合各种元素的音乐的有强烈的偏好。

音乐从来都是她生命中最充满激情的部分，但她以一名音乐人为实际职业生涯是在她参加了由名为C.K. Ladzekpo的著名加纳打击乐手主讲的非洲鼓课程后才有所进展。将西非音乐多样化韵律的混合与她本身对于旋律及和谐的热爱相结合，乔西·柯琳开始集中精力于她的演奏、歌唱和作曲事业。“在我听到Wes Montgomery的《If You Could See Me Now》的solo的一瞬间，一切似乎都凝固了。从那时起，仿佛吉他选择了我。”

by Ed Hogan

One of the Bay Area's premier guitarists and most popular performers for over a decade, Joyce Cooling's Playing It Cool is a dazzling showcase of her eclectic approach to music. Drawing upon a wide palette of influences ranging from acclaimed Brazilian guitarist/singer/songwriter João Bosco to outstanding Texas bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan, a typical Cooling performance usually combines jazz, pop, funk, and R&B with a smattering of worldbeat.

Playing It Cool, her Heads Up International debut album, produced and co-arranged with her longtime musical partner, keyboardist Jay Wagner became a favorite of smooth jazz world enthusiasts. The first radio single, "South of Market," soared to number one in the country on both the Gavin Report's and Radio & Records' smooth jazz charts holding the position for five consecutive weeks. Cooling was nominated for the Gavin Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year, named the Jazz Trax Debut Artist of the Year, and was voted Best New Artist in the smooth jazz category of a Jazziz Readers Poll. Playing It Cool, which is an enhanced CD has several standout tracks: the chugging "Carrie" that sounds similar to a Paul Hardcastle track; the snappy "Coasting"; "Aint Life Grand" with an acoustic bass tone that has rumbling stride similar to the bass line on Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"; with solid blocked piano chords and bluesy, Wes Montgomery-like guitar lines, "Before Dawn" is in the same vein; and Cooling takes a turn at vocals on "Simple Kind of Love," which has a Michael Franks flavor.

Considering the great variety of music, her large family surrounded her back East in the New York City area, Cooling couldn't help but have such a wide love of different types of music. Her mother was a classical buff, one brother was a hard rocker, a cousin was into funk and pop. She dabbled in keyboards and percussion before settling on guitar. Her mind made up in part when she heard Wes Montgomery's solo on "If You Could See Me Now." A glance at Cooling's massive record collection would turn up everyone from Bill Evans to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis and Wes Montgomery to João Gilberto.

While music was a passionate part of Cooling's life, a career as a musician only took root after she moved to California and began hanging around outside an African drumming class taught by C.K. Ladzekpo, a renowned Ghanaian percussionist. She was entranced by the intricate polyrhythms, being an enthusiastic student, while she worked at every kind of part-time odd job in order to be able to be a musician. Her introduction to Jay Wagner, a keyboardist on San Francisco's Brazilian circuit, gave her the energy that her developing chops needed; before long, she was playing that circuit herself and working with Wagner on a full-time basis.

Becoming a top attraction on the festival circuit, Cooling appeared at the JVC Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival ,the Stanford University Jazz Festival (a tribute concert with Stan Getz), and cities throughout the world including the Phillippines, Guadalajara, Mexico, and Colombia, and with such jazz giants as Joe Henderson, Airto, and Charlie Byrd.

Cooling released her first independent album Cameo in 1989, receiving high critical praise and a huge amount of regional airplay, including spins on 94.7 the Wave in Los Angeles and Bay Area stations KKSF and KBLX.

Also included on Playing It Cool are Cooling's bandmates, bassist Gary Calvin and drummer Billy Johnson.

Joyce Cooling　乔西·柯琳

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Joyce Cooling 乔西·柯琳

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Joyce Cooling　乔西·柯琳