Lindsay Cooper

Born in 1951, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and political activist Lindsay Cooper was a fixture on the new music scene in both Great Britain and Europe after she first appeared with Henry Cow in 1974. Initially emerging with links to the Canterbury scene, a place and period in which prog rock and modern British jazz spawned groups such as Soft Machine, Henry Cow, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Matching Mole, and many others, Cooper's restlessness and talents soon far outstripped those geographical musical origins. Cooper began playing piano at age 11 in her nativ...