Pressure Cooker is a nine piece reggae/ska/rocksteady band from Boston. The group writes, records, and performs original songs in the styles of 60's and 70's Jamaican music. The group formed in 1997.

Pressure Cooker has released six full-length CDs. Fronted by lead singer Craig Akira Fujita and backed by a core of Boston-area musicians, the band has played to audiences at clubs and festivals spanning from New England to Chicago. Over the years, Pressure Cooker has opened locally for notable artists of roots reggae music including Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailers, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, The Skatalites, Culture, Laurel Aitken, Eek-A-Mouse, Julian Marley, and Sister Carol.

Pressure Cooker music has reached audiences worldwide through DJs, distribution outlets such as CD Baby & iTunes Music store, niche CD compilations in the U.S., Japan, France, Germany and Poland, and the Chicago label Jump Up Records for the 2004 album Burning Fence.

Their newest recording, "What She Wants", was released by Jump Up Records in late January 2009.

Lineup

• Craig Akira Fujita - vocals
• Michael O'Connor - tenor saxophone
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• Brian Thomas - trombone
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• Jeffrey Eckman - drum
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• Dan Hawkins - bass
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• Adam Dobkowski - guitar
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• Zack Brines - keyboards
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• Robin Teague - tenor saxophone
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  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Louisa Gelfuso - trumpet
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Discography

• Pressure Cooker S/T - 1999
• I Want to Tell You - 2001
• Committed - 2003
• Burning Fence - 2004
• Future's History - 2006
• What She Wants- 2009

External links

• Pressure Cooker Official Homepage