The Cookers Featuring Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Craig Handy, David Weiss, Donald Harrison, Eddie Henderson, and George Cables

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Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than the Cookers.

—Boston Globe

The Cookers are some of the best composers, arrangers, and musicians we have in jazz, and they’re working together in one of the most exciting supergroups we’ve seen in a long, long time.

—DownBeat

Experience counts, especially in jazz. The more time musicians spend interpreting tunes and interacting with other musicians, the more articulation an audience can expect. Comprising trumpeters David Weiss and Eddie Henderson, saxophonists Craig Handy and Donald Harrison, pianist George Cables, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Billy Hart, the Cookers are a fiery group of jazz virtuosos collectively boasting more than 250 years of experience and thousands of recordings.

While giants in their own right, each member of the Cookers has performed or recorded with every jazz great of the past 40 years. Each has spent time as a bandleader, and each contributes a keenly individual sound to the group. But it’s the unmistakable power of teamwork that makes this music so commanding and resonate with a kind of depth and beauty that speaks of the seasoned track record of its players.