Joyce Cooling
One of the Bay Area's premier guitarists and most popular performers for over a decade, Joyce Cooling takes a chameleon-like approach to instrumental music. Dra
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One of the Bay Area's premier guitarists and most popular performers for over a decade, Joyce Cooling takes a chameleon-like approach to instrumental music. Drawing upon a wide array of influences ranging from famed Brazilian guitarist/singer/songwriter Joao Bosco to Stevie Ray Vaughan, a typical Cooling club and festival hopping week usually includes a combination of Brazilian, jazz, pop, funk, blues and R&B.
"Anyone who has ever seen me play live knows that I like to play in all sorts of rhythmic contexts, but at the heart of everything is my great love for songwriting," says Cooling. "There is no greater means of expression for me, and as much as I love performing, I feel loosest and most creative when an idea hits and I work hard to see it through. The challenge is always to arrive at a happy medium, composing tunes that are both commercial and musical, pushing myself to be as artistic as possible without sacrificing the type of melodies listeners can enjoy."
While music was always the most natural and passionate part of her life, Cooling tried the straight route for a while, enrolling in college as a nutritional chemistry major. A free student exchange program at UC Berkeley brought her out from her local college back East, but a career as a musician only took root after she began hanging around outside an African drumming class taught by C.K. Ladzekpo, a renowned Ghanan percussionist. "I was entranced by the polyrhythmic textures he was teaching," she recalls." l lived for that class! I was doing every kind of part-time odd job I could find just to afford to be a musician."
Getting back to the issue of songwriting, Cooling hopes that the release of Playing It Cool will be just the first step towards making her mark as a composer of commercial music which stands the test of time. "That's the whole point to what [my longtime musical partner] Jay and I do, striving to create songs which will sound as great twenty years from now as they do today. I look back on pieces we have written over the years and am happy to find a few that really work for me as well as they did the moment we created them. The goal is always to communicate that same kind of warm feeling to the listener, connecting emotionally with songs that are timeless."
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Just heard on KLON that you are coming to Los Angeles soon. What is your schedule for Southern California? Where is the best place to go for info?
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