The Cookers live at 40th Jazzweek Burghausen 2009

Billy Harper (ts)
Craig Handy (as),
Eddie Henderson (tp)
David Weiss (tp)
George Cables (p)
Cecil McBee (b)
E. J. Strickland (dr)

recorded live at 40th International Jazzweek Burghausen 2009

1. Capra Black (Billy Harper)
2. Peacemaker (Cecil McBee)
3. The Core (Freddie Hubbard)
4. Sweet Rita Suite Part II (George Cables)
5. The Chief (Harold Mabern)

6. Priestess (Billy Harper)

The Cookers is comprised of many of the musicians who contributed to the development of this sound and to pushing the music forward from there. While giants in their own right, the members of this ensemble have performed and/or recorded with pretty much every jazz great of the past 40 years including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, and Dexter Gordon, to name just a few. The group performs newly arranged versions of classic compositions by Billy Harper, Cecil McBee and George Cables along with works by the other members of the ensemble.