Mervyn Cooke
Writer, BBC Music Magazine
Recent articles by Mervyn Cooke
Richard Rodney Bennett: from high-class jazz to Agatha Christie, one Britain's most talented composers
From youthful atonalism to Oscar-winning filmscores and suavely genial jazz, here was a composer who had it all, says Mervyn Cooke
Duke Ellington: the jazz pioneer who broke all the rules
Mervyn Cooke explores a groundbreaking composer and influential bandleader who took jazz into previously untrodden territory
Nino Rota
The Italian composer’s bitter-sweet style graces many classic films; perhaps the time is ripe to discover his concert music, says Mervyn Cooke
Joplin, Scott
His style may have led the way to the free world of jazz, but Scott Joplin himself was something of a stickler for musical rules, as Mervyn Cooke explains
