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,
Warriors, Cast The First Stone and Believe. On Time and Time again the
incredibly high level of musicianship has only increased with the latest
offering of fresh, challenging, boundary-pushing music from these legendary,
revered, veteran improvisers. Available
on Motema Music, September 16, 2014. The Cookers will be touring the globe in
support of the album, see dates below.
Selling
Points:
- A true
jazz 'super-group', The Cookers features five ground-breaking jazz elders
– Eddie
Henderson and Billy Hart (original members of Herbie Hancock's groundbreaking
Mwandishi band); Cecil McBee (from the landmark Charles Lloyd Quartet with
Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette); Billy Harper (a working band member of jazz
giants Lee Morgan, Max Roach and Art Blakey) & George Cables (Dexter
Gordon, Art Pepper, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and Sonny Rollins…) Also key
to the group’s current sound are the highly respected New Orleans jazz leader,
Donald Harrison, and the essential New York trumpeter/arranger David Weiss who
is responsible for assembling this fine group and for many of their outstanding
arrangements
- One of
the hotter tickets on the international jazz scene (Newport, Marciac, Montreal,
Saratoga, Detroit, NYC, San Francisco)
-
Outstanding original compositions by Harper, Cables, McBee, Hart and Weiss
revealing The Cookers as a treasure trove of some of the most soulful and
ingenious composers in the jazz firmament.
The Cookers are: Billy Harper (Tenor Sax), Eddie Henderson (Trumpet), David Weiss (Trumpet), Donald Harrison (Alto Sax), George Cables (Piano), Cecil McBee (Bass) and Billy Hart (Drums)
THE
COOKERS - Time and Time Again WORLDWIDE TOUR
August
2-Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount, NY
August
3-Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
August
10-Festival Of Jazz, Tabarka, Tunisia
August
12-Jazz in Marciac, Marciac, France
August
13-Oslo Jazz Festival, Oslo, Norway
August
14-Nisville Jazz Festival, Nis, Serbia
August
15-La Petite Pierre Jazz Festival, La Petite Pierre, France
August
17-Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center, West Orange, NJ
September
13-Hamilton Stage for the Performing Arts, Rahway, NJ
September
23 & 24-The Blue Note, New York, NY
September
25-The Dakota, Minneapolis, MN
September
26-SF Jazz, San Francisco, CA
September
28-Harris Center for the Arts, Folsom, CA
September
29-Kuumbwa Jazz, Santa Cruz, CA
September
30-Redwood Jazz Alliance, Arcata, CA
October
1-Jimmy Mak's, Portland, OR
October
2-Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
October
3-Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ
October
4 & 5-The Outpost, Albuquerque, NM
October
17-Thelonious Monk at 97 Jazzathon, Brookfield Place, Battery Park City, New
York, NY
November
1-The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
November
7-Exit 0 Jazz Festival, Cape May, NJ
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