“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

See also the Cooper-Moore self-released CD-Rs currently available here.

Hear too Triptych Myth's 2nd & final album, The Beautiful, & this 2005 concert at Roulette.

Key early work from Cooper-Moore. This collection documents the integration of his homemade instruments into his music & the development of several themes that have become personal touchstones in his concept that incorporates avant-garde jazz, theater, traditional American & African musics, & so forth. Several of the tunes were released in different forms elsewhere - "Prayer" turned up on David S. Ware's Birth of a Being LP and "In the Beginning" had been recorded for Alan Braufman's Valley of Search album. Hear a few tracks.

Credits:
Cooper-Moore: diddley-bo, piano, clay fife, slap pipe, ashimba, twanger, voice
Kenwood Dennard: percussion
Mark Gould: trumpet
David S. Ware: tenor saxophone
Abigail Goldman: voice