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    JAZZ

    Nov 09, 2021 4 minutes
    —Thomas Conrad

    THE COOKERS

    Look Out!

    David Weiss, trumpet, arrangements; six others Gear Box GB1571CD (CD, available as download, LP). 2021. David Weiss, prod.; Maureen Sickler, eng.

    In a perfect world, critics would hear a band live then write a review of their new album the following morning. It rarely works out that way, but it just did. The Cookers played Jazz Alley in Seattle last night. This review is underway 12 hours later.

    In person, The Cookers, like most jazz bands, are looser and rougher and more expansive than on record. At Jazz Alley, in a two-hour set, they played six tunes. Soloists kept taking one more chorus. The night was aflame. A is that, in the sheltered environment of the Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey, it approaches the wild energy of last night in Seattle.

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