iTUNES NAMES "JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

(Published: December 16, 2014)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 


iTUNES NAMES THE COOKERS 
"TIME AND TIME AGAIN" 
On Motema Music 
THE 2014 "JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR"

THE COOKERS LAUNCH NEW WEBSITE 

"TIME AND TIME AGAIN" GARNERS MASS CRITICAL ACCLAIM - See Quotes Below

THE COOKERS TO PERFORM MUSIC 
FROM "TIME AND TIME AGAIN" 
@ THE 2015 WINTER JAZZFEST
Saturday, January 10, 2015 @ 8:45 PM
The Minetta Lane Theatre, 18-22 Minetta Lane, NYC 


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 (released on September 16), the follow up album to their three critically-acclaimed recordings, Warriors, Cast The First Stone and Believe. Time and Time Again has now been named iTunes' "JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR" for 2014 - see all of the winners at iTunes.com/BestMusic2014. This distinguished honor coincides with the launching of the band's new website (check out the plethora of information, photos, videos and more HERE! ), and comes on the heels of massive international outpouring amount of critical acclaim for the group (a small sampling of quotes is below). 

WINTER JAZZFEST performance announced: The incredibly high level of musicianship that The Cookers (as managed and produced by David Weiss) are known for will be on full display as the band takes the stage at The Minetta Theatre as part of the 2015 Winter Jazzfest on Saturday, January 10, 2015 (@ 8:45 PM). 

You can't buy experience, and The Cookers have it in abundance; combined, the group has over 250 years of experience in the jazz world, and has been a part of over 1,000 recordings. The lineup features the veritable jazz legends, Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, and Billy Hart, each bandleaders in their own right, and also key sidemen for seminal bands in the exhilarating era of the mid 1960s. Representing a younger generation of ace veterans are Weiss on trumpet, and the band's newest member, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison.

On Time and Time Again you can hear and feel the decades of living and playing these warhorses have racked up in the bands of jazz stalwarts such as Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, Max Roach, Art Blakey and many others. Also on full display is the take-no-prisoners approach that the band has become known for worldwide, married with a profound melodic and harmonic sophistication. "If you wondered what has happened to all the passion and intensity, once such essential ingredients of great swinging jazz and now virtually non-existent in so much of today's outpourings, you'll find it all in The Cookers," said Tony Hall in JazzWise Magazine (UK), who rated the release at the top of his year end list, as did iTunes, which has named the release "Jazz Album of the Year" for 2014.

The breadth of the compositions on Time and Time Again spans more than 40 years, from a revamped version of a Billy Harper tune 'Sir Galahad' which he first recorded on his debut album 'Capra Black' (in 1973), to two brand new tunes from bassist Cecil McBee, making their debut on this recording. The CD also features music from the pen of Billy Hart, George Cables and David Weiss. Time and Time Again also marks the recording debut of Donald Harrison with The Cookers, a wonderful new addition to this group of "musician's musicians". "The process of rehearsing this great music and bringing it to life and then performing and recording it is an amazing experience for me, these brilliant musicians still surprise me on a regular basis," said trumpeter/bandleader David Weiss.

"The Cookers are more interested in making history than they are in re-living it . . ."
(J Hunter, Nippertown), and through the music on Time and Time Again The Cookers produce a mighty force of commitment, to each other, and to the music.