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Believe
By The Cookers
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Believe, For It Is True; Temptation(s); Ebony Moonbeams; Free For All; Quest; But He Knows; Tight Squeeze; Naaj.
Naaj
Album: Believe
By The Cookers
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2012
Duration: 06:57
The Cookers: Believe
by Troy Collins
Believe is The Cooker's third release in as many years, celebrating the all-star septet's fifth anniversary as a working group. More than just a collective of high-profile scene veterans (named after Freddie Hubbard's live 1965 Blue Note recording Night of the Cookers), the lineup's impressive credentials collectively span from the acoustic hard bop of Art Blakey's ...
The Cookers: Cast the First Stone
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando il trombettista e arrangiatore David Weiss ha deciso di creare un sestetto formato da maestri del jazz anni Settanta si è dovuto confrontare con l'estetica del “Play-Hard-and-Mean-It". E' il manifesto di uno stile legato alla lezione dell'hard bop, ma aperto alle innovazioni modali e all'urgenza espressiva del decennio precedente. In quegli anni il pubblico era ...
The Cookers: Cast the First Stone
by Troy Collins
Cast the First Stone is the sophomore follow-up to Warriors (Jazz Legacy Productions, 2010), the debut recording of the all-star ensemble The Cookers, whose name was inspired by the 1965 Blue Note live album series Night of the Cookers. Lending credence to its namesake, this powerhouse septet swings mightily through a series of post-bop originals and ...
The Cookers - Cast the First Stone (Plus Lion Music, 2011)
The Cookers is a collective unit primarily consisting of veteran musicians who came up in the wake of hard-bop and free jazz in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It's a pretty extraordinary unit, all things considered: Billy Harper on tenor saxophone; Eddie Henderson and David Weiss on trumpet, Craig Handy on alto saxophone, Azar Lawrence ...
Subject: The Cookers Celebrate The Release Of Cast the First Stone @ The Iridum - May 14 & 15!
THE COOKERS Celebrate The Release Of CAST THE FIRST STONE (Plus Loin), Hard- Hitting Follow-Up to Acclaimed WARRIORS May 14 & 15! The Iridum 1650 Broadway, NYC (at 51st Street) Tel 212 582 2121 Showtime is 9:00 PM, tkts are $30 Billy Harper (Tenor Sax), Eddie Henderson (Trumpet), David Weiss ...
The Cookers: Warriors
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il progetto Warriors nasce da un'idea del trombettista e arrangiatore David Weiss, fondatore del New Jazz Composers Octet. Ha riunito sette maestri legati alla stagione del jazz anni Sessanta-Settanta, in particolare a quella fusione di hard bop, free e modale ben rappresentata da Coltrane, Woody Shaw, Hubbard e da molta produzione Blue Note. Guerrieri perché esponenti ...
J Hunter's Best Releases of 2010
by J Hunter
Counting down the best releases of 2010: Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom Foxhaven 2010 Anyone with job references as diverse as organ icon Dr. Lonnie Smith and indie singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco must have something interesting to say, and drummer Allison Miller proves that out. Boom Tic Boom is ...
Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz - "New Jazz, Straight Ahead (part 2)"
Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum—A Journey Through Jazz Episode 24: “New Jazz, Straight Ahead (Part 2)" Hosted & Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As it has been with the past 23 episode (which are still available on the soulandjazz.com website, by the way) the show is absolutely free, completely legal, fun ...
