ザ・クッカーズ - 「Look Out!CD

GB1571CD
Compact Disc in replica mini LP-style gatefold sleeve

“genuine all-stars” – The Guardian

“Individually, they've been at the core of the post-bop jazz scene for decades. As a group, they've been thrilling audiences around the world for the past 5 years.” – NPR

“A dream team of forward-leaning hard-bop” - NY Times

ジャズ・スーパーグループ、ザ・クッカーズの6枚目のアルバム「ルック・アウト！」が、9月24日に2枚組レコード、CD、デジタルで発売されます。イングルウッドクリフスにある象徴的なヴァン・ゲルダー・スタジオで録音され、ギアボックス・レコードでヴァン・ゲルダー時代の67年製ハエコ・スカレー旋盤を使ってカットされた7曲入りの本作は、セシル・マクビー、ビリー・ハーパー、ジョージ・ケーブルが作曲したオリジナルの新鮮な楽曲で構成されており、60年代半ばの頭脳的でアグレッシブなポストバップの時代を表現しています。

Whereas the majority of the jazz tradition’s elder statesmen head their own groups, this is one of the few jazz bands to contain legacy musicians of this calibre functioning as an equitable, long-standing ensemble. Billy Harper, Cecil McBee, George Cables, Eddie Henderson, and Billy Hart all came up in the heady era of the mid ‘60s: Hart and Henderson were members of Herbie Hancock’s groundbreaking Mwandishi group; Cecil McBee anchored Charles Lloyd’s great ’60s quartet alongside Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette; Billy Harper was part of Lee Morgan’s last group, as well as being a member of Max Roach’s Quartet and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; while George Cables held down the piano chair in numerous bands including groups led by Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon and Art Pepper. David Weiss and Donald Harrison, from a more recent generation and the youngest members of the band, are experts in this forthright lingo, having gained experience performing with Art Blakey, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Roy Haynes and Herbie Hancock.

After 14 years together, again the incredibly high level of musicianship has only increased with the revisiting of their fresh, challenging, boundary-pushing music from these legendary, revered, veteran improvisers.