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10/18 Saturday
7:00 PM Jacob William Parampara Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums
Steve Lantner - Piano
Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax
Forbes Graham - Trumpet
Jacob William - Bass
This incarnation of Parampara is very special because the extraordinary drummer and artist Laurence Cook will play to lend his very very groovy spirit as well as his over 30 years of experience on the creative music making scene.
And needless to say, but also, Laurence playing with us underlines the notion of Parampara on the whole.
~Drummer Laurence Cook is a late first-generation American free improviser. Born in Boston, Cook attended art school there, before moving to N.Y.C. in the early '60s and working as a longshoreman. Although he has no recordings as a leader, Cook appears on many albums starting in the late '60s and stretching all the way through the '90s. He recorded with Alan Silva (on Skillfullness), the Godz, and Paul Bley during Bley's electronic period. During the '70s, Cook returned to Boston and collaborated with pianist/physicist Lowell Davidson until later in the decade when he began working in Bill Dixon's bands. Cook appears on several of Dixon's recordings and continued to work with him through the late '80s. Cook was tied up with day gigs for much of the early '90s, but in 1996 he returned to more high-profile performing and recording. During the last half of the '90s he worked with Jamell Moondoc, Thurston Moore, and Sabir Mateen, among others. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide~