This great band comprising a groups of living veterans of Jazz music is one of the great working bands of today. Working bands are rare in this day and age but this band tours the world playing in clubs and doing concerts. They play a great repertoire that comes from the members of the band and they have a wonderful collective spirit much like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from yesteryear. The organizer and the "brains" behind the band is it's youngest member, trumpeter David Weiss. The personal are all long time veterans of the contemporary Jazz scene of the last 60 odd years. Along with Weiss on trumpet is another major voice, Eddie Henderson, Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper is a powerhouse as is it's newest member New Orleans born alto saxophone master Donald Harrison. Piano great George Cables is superb and bassist Cecil McBee has walked with the giants of Jazz as has drummer Billy Hart. The Cookers are a real band and are living proof that Jazz music can still swing, sound fresh and have real blues inflection and not sound cold and academic. These men play from their minds and their souls. "Time and Time Again" is their latest musical statement and it's worth your time.

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