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After seven years together, The Cookers, who "embody the serious-as-death commitment that it took to thrive on the New York scene some four decades ago" (Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe ), entered the studio earlier this year to record their fourth album, Time and Time Again, the follow up album to their three critically-acclaimed recordings ...
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Warriors (2010) 1. Capra Black (Billy Harper) 2. Ladybugg...
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Eddie Henderson. Jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Eddie...
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He continued graduate studies at NTSU and became a member of...
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After fourteen years together, The Cookers, who “embody the serious-as-death commitment that it took to thrive on the New York scene some four decades ago” (Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe), recently released their sixth album, Look Out!, the follow up album to their five critically-acclaimed recordings, Warriors, Cast The First Stone ...
Oct 1, 2021 · The seven members are today’s essence of hard bop with unmatched legacies. Two of its members, Billy Hart and Donald Harrison, have been dubbed 2022 NEA Jazz Masters. In step with tradition, it seems only appropriate that the recording took place at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio.
Oct 19, 2021 · This group could easily be described as the modern jazz veterans, most of them in their 70s and Billy Hart over 80. The septet has been going on and off since 2010 with the present personnel and this is their sixth album to date. All the music on this double LP was composed by the band members, two by Harper, two by Workman and three by George ...
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Feb 8, 2022 · In July 2020, four months after COVID-19 locked down the world, The Cookers entered Van Gelder Studio to record Look Out! (Gearbox), its sixth album of original compositions created by members of the band. As on previous five, the collective septet uncorks rarefied levels of inflamed soul improvisation emblematic of the Cookers’ brand.
What started as just a few random nights in Brooklyn to reunite and pay tribute to Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan has grown a long-working jazz band that draws from a deep well.
The Cookers, an exciting all-star septet, summons up an aggressive mid-’60s spirit with a potent collection of expansive post-bop originals marked by all the requisite killer instincts and pyrotechnic playing expected of some of the heaviest hitters on the scene today. Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, and Billy Hart ...
