James Francis Cooke (November 14, 1875, Bay City, Michigan – March 3, 1960, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) was an American music educator.

The family was recorded in the U.S. Censuses, passport application and ship's travel logs (look at see also section for links).

[3][5] He studied music with R. Huntington Woodman, Walter Henry Hall, Charles Dunham, Dudley Buck, Ernst Eberhard and William Medorn in New York.

[5] In the course of his interviewing and talking with the musicians of his day, Cooke became a "close friend and associate" with John Philip Sousa.

Sousa visited him shortly before his death, and talked to him about the lack of religion in modern music as a failing.

Piano solos include: White Orchids (1941),[9] Mountain Shower (1943),[10] Roses at Dawn (1945),[11] and Ballet Mignon (1948).