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Out Here and Beyond - The Cookers
06/12/2012 9:00 am
06/15/2012 10:00 pm
WWUH will be featuring interviews with two members of The Cookers this week, in anticipation of the jazz band's performance at The Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Ave., Hartford on Friday, June 15 at 7 p.m.
Tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, a respected composer/improviser since his work with the Gil Evans Orchestra during the late 1960s, will speak with Chuck Obuchowski on Tuesday, June 12 at 10 a.m. during "Out Here & Beyond." Trumpeter David Weiss, founder of The Cookers, will be interviewed by Chuck on Thursday Morning Jazz June 14 at 10:15. Both interviews will include music from "Believe," a new release by The Cookers on Motema Records.
Friday's concert with The Cookers, which also feature trumpeter Eddie Henderson, saxophonist Craig Handy, pianist George Cables, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Billy Hart, is being presented by The Hartford Jazz Society. For more details, contact the Society at www.hartfordjazzsociety.com.