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The Cookers at SFJazz

by Harry S. Pariser
October 4, 2014

The Cookers SF Jazz San Francisco, California September 26, 2014 When the legendary late jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard joined with saxophonist Lee Morgan and other musicians to perform at Brooklyn's Club La Marchal in April 1975, they produced The Night of the Cookers (Blue Note, 1965), one of history's classic ...

Article: Album Review

The Leaders: Spirits Alike

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 31, 2007

Sono passati vent'anni dalla prima incisione di questo gruppo, che ai suoi esordi vantava la creatività debordante del compianto Lester Bowie. Del gruppo originario sono rimasti oggi solo il sassofonista Chico Freeman ed il contrabbassista Cecil MCBee: fantastici solisti, ma non in grado di surrogare l'estro del sopra citato trombettista. Intorno ai due è stata allestita ...

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Article: Album Review

The Leaders: Spirits Alike

Read "Spirits Alike" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
April 21, 2007

Comprised of a half dozen of the most impressive bandleaders of the mid-eighties post-loft jazz scene, The Leaders made a number of fine recordings for Black Hawk, Black Saint and Sunnyside before quietly disbanding at the end of the eighties. Conceived as a more conventionally traditional project than their usual efforts, the original Leaders was an ...