INFORMATION
| Artist Birtday : | 07/02/1957(Age 68) |
| Born In : | Kew, Surrey |
Richard David Cook (7 February 1957 – 25 August 2007) was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey, and lived in west London as an adult. He was co-author, with Brian Morton, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly …on CD), which lasted for ten editions until 2010. Richard Cook’s Jazz Companion and It’s About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off the Record were published in 2005. A writer on music from the late 1970s until he died, he was a contributor to the NME (often writing confused reviews of punk and new wave artists when venturing away from jazz), the jazz critic for The Sunday Times and later a music writer for the New Statesman.