Since launching his career with 1995’s “Tempest”, Cook has blazed an incredible trail. Beyond his prolific accomplishments as a beloved Nuevo Flamenco guitarist over the past 25 years, he has honed his skills as a composer, producer, arranger, performer, and filmmaker.
By the numbers, Jesse Cook has ten platinum and gold studio albums with combined sales exceeding two million copies; 700 million streams online; five concert DVDs and live discs; five PBS specials; a library of over 300 YouTube videos; eleven Juno nominations with one Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album (“Free Fall”, 2001); one Gemini Award; three Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards; one Acoustic Guitar Magazine Player’s Choice Silver Award; thousands of sold-out concerts in dozens of countries and countless fans around the globe. Not a bad legacy for a guy who never planned to release an album!
Lately, his international appeal, reflected in a compositional style that mixes Flamenco with everything from Classical and Jazz to Zydeco, Blues and Brazilian samba, has become something he takes more seriously.
