Cooper-Moore (see Articles page for much more)
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Solo Piano #2
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Remarkable & restless solo piano, a studio recording from 2012. "Cluster Blue," the expanded barrelhouse inspired by the style of his old family friend Mr. Gene Quickley, always grabs ears. No jewel case, as issued. 22 tracks; 55 minutes. Hear Track 1 aka Cluster Blue, Track 10, Track 12, & Track 21.

Self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Deep in the Neighborhood of History and Influence
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Live solo piano recording c.1999 in Guelph, Canada. Remastered from the original, long out of print Hopscotch pressing. “The ultimate underground jazz document, this is a lo-fi, live solo-piano lecture-concert bursting with personality. Cooper-Moore puts standup-routine eulogies, rants and preambles around a variety of moods, including hailstone-abrasive improvisations, Ellingtonian chords, boogie-woogie, & ballads. His irrepressibility is hard to resist.” - Ben Ratliff, NY Times. No jewel case, as issued. Hear All of a Sudden, A Float, & Waltz.

Originally released on Hopscotch, this version was self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Looking Back One
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First retrospective of home & other recordings by Cooper-Moore includes the mammoth mouth bow drone of “Black Strap Sweet,” mesmerizing “Banjo Arba Minch Garden,” a beautiful spiritual in “Steal Away,” several vocal pieces, & more. Intimate glimpses of a fearless creative artist at work. No jewel case, as issued. 16 songs; 40 minutes. Hear Black Strap Sweet, Steal Away, & Banjo - Arba Minch Garden.

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Looking Back Two
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This 2nd retrospective of home & other recordings by Cooper-Moore features diddley-bow jump blues & laments, a few solo piano pieces, a discombobulating synth piece dedicated to William Parker, and a few flute & bass duos with Clayton Thomas. No jewel case, as issued.. 11 songs; 40 minutes. Hear Afro American Fragment, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, & Clayton & Me #4.

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Triptych Myth
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$5 standard or $10/autographed by Cooper-Moore

“Free jazz can be a knotty foreign language to learn, especially without any prior jazz context. Which is why the self-titled debut from Triptych Myth was such an Aha! moment for me in late 2003. … Triptych Myth -- the trio of Cooper-Moore (piano), Tom Abbs (bass), & Chad Taylor (drums) -- opened my ears. You can almost hear the directions unfold before your ears throughout the disc, which mixes hard, left-hook swingers with reflective improvisations. Right from the outset, opening cut 'Stem Cell' pounds a hard line that devolves before your ears and somehow finds its way back to the melody.” - Lars Gotrich, NPR, A Blog Supreme. Hear Stem Cell, Nautilus, & Susan.

Cooper-Moore: piano
Tom Abbs: bass
Chad Taylor: drums

(hear too their 2nd & final album, The Beautiful, & this 2005 concert at Roulette)