The Cookers Quintet's lyrics & chords

THE COOKERS QUINTET The Cookers Quintet are a Toronto-based jazz combo, with a sound firmly rooted in the '50s and '60s hard bop movement. Born out of a weekly residency where the group cut their teeth on the classic, hard swinging music of Horace Silver, Art Blakey and Hank Mobley, it didn't take long before they were writing tunes of their own. "We wanted to have tunes that would be swinging, straight ahead, and arranged for a quintet. Essentially, fun tunes with great rhythms and memorable melodies that even non-jazz lovers would be attracte...read more