The Cookers

★★★★ Look Out! GEARBOX. CD/DL/LP

Sixth LP from these forward-leaning post-bop veterans finds them changing gears at will. Packed with swinging rhythms, trenchant melodies and soulful solos, hard-edged originals like the piano-pulsing Mystery Of Monifa Brown, cross-cutting brass volleys of Somalia and ensemble pushand-pull of Traveling Lady scream with uncurbed passion while eschewing grandstanding.