COOPER-MOORE TRIO

Cooper-Moore is a composer-improviser, instrumentalist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator living and working in New York City. A native of the Piedmont area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Cooper-Moore began studying piano at age eight. Four years later, he was listening to Monk, Mingus, and Ornette and working on improvisation.

Moving to New York in 1973, Cooper-Moore took over the five-floor 501 Canal Street building and transformed it into an artist living/work space, making a wealth of experimentation between performing and visual artists possible. While his attention was focused on piano performance in New York clubs and touring abroad, Cooper-Moore began designing and building musical instruments and played them in collaboration with all kinds of artist at lofts, galleries, artist spaces, museums, and in the streets of New York City.

Over the years, Cooper-Moore has built an extensive instrument collection using such material as paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic. He most often performs with his ashimba (a type of xylophone), diddly-bow, and horizontal hoe-handle harp. Cooper- Moore is also respected as the official storyteller of Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

"Virtuosic pianist Cooper-Moore jumping from the ivories to bamboo flutes to the banjo and then to his homemade Didly Bow, Tom Abbs floating between sheets of bass and bow to the tuba like a force of nature, and Chad Taylor driving it home with his astounding agility, playing drums and vibraphone simultaneously."

Don't miss this unusually flexible and broad ranging trio

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October, 2002 - 2002