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11/21/2024 12:00 AMOn Sunday, Nov. 24, at 5 p.m. at the Chester Meeting House, 4 Liberty Street, Robbie Collomore Concerts presents seven jazz greats performing as The Cookers.
The Cookers, seven jazz greats who started performing together 17 years ago, are a culmination of decades of their performances with many of the great jazz ensembles, including Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, and more. Each member of The Cookers has spent time leading his own series of groups as well, and each has a keenly individual sound.
But it’s the unmistakable power of teamwork that makes this music so commanding and resonates with a kind of depth and beauty that speaks of the seasoned track record of its principals (combined, the group has over 250 years of experience in the jazz world and has been a part of over 1,000 recordings).
After seventeen 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), recently released their sixth album, Look Out!, the follow-up album to their five critically-acclaimed recordings, Warriors, Cast The First Stone, Believe, Time and Time Again and The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart. On Look Out!, again the incredibly high level of musicianship has only increased with the latest offering of fresh, challenging, boundary-pushing music from these legendary, revered, veteran improvisers.
Robbie Collomore Concerts, founded in 1974, is a standing committee of the Chester Historical Society, under whose auspices we present these concerts.
For more information, visit www.collomoreconcerts.org.