Cooper Moore
Cooper-Moore (* 31 August 1946 in Virginia as Gene Y. Ashton ) is an American jazz - pianist , composer of free jazz and new improvised music as well as music teacher and instrument maker.
Live and act
Cooper-Moore grew up in the Piedmont / Virginia area. He began to learn the piano at the age of eight and initially played church music. Under the influence of the music of Thelonious Monk , Charles Mingus or Ornette Coleman , he dealt with improvisation music . In 1970 he founded the Apogee trio with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards .
He earned a bachelor's degree in music education from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and later studied composition and arrangement at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1973 he moved to New York, where he first performed as a pianist in clubs and finally rented a loft on Canal Street with Alan Braufman and converted it into a work and performance space for artists. In 1975 he was recorded for the first time on Braufman's album Valley of Search .
He is currently working with a trio of Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor called Triptych Myth . Another formation under his direction is the trio Digital Primitives , which includes Chad Taylor and Assif Tsahar . He also works in Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble , with Steve Swell , Susie Ibarra and William Parker , a. a. he performed with Parker's Jeanne Lee Project at the 2003 New York Vision Festival . He recorded several albums for the avant-garde label AUM Fidelity .
In addition to his musicianship, he was active in various multimedia projects, such as the Visions of Tomorrow project with the ecologist Sam Love. He also worked with the book artist Susan Share in her project Unfolded World and the Moving Spirits Dance Theater .
Cooper-Moore spent several years as an educator and music therapist at the Harlem Interfaith Counseling Service in New York, at the Wolf Trap Foundation in Virginia and at The New School for Social Research in the Jazz Department.
Cooper-Moore lives and works in New York City.
Instrument making
One of the many instruments that Cooper-Moore has built is the A Deedly-bo , a three-string, fretless banjo . With his instruments he uses u. a. Materials like paper, bamboo, metal, wood and acrylic glass. In addition to his main instrument, the piano, he mainly performs with his ashimba , a kind of xylophone , as well as a bass violin, a horizontal harp and an electrically amplified oral violin. His instruments were u. a. presented in New York at the Thread Waxing Gallery and Goddard Riverside Community Center .
Discography
- Cooper-Moore: The Cedar Box Recordings (5 7-inch CDs - 2004)
- Triptych Myth : The Beautiful (2005)
- William Parker: In Order to Survive the Peach Orchard (1993)
- William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Mayor of Punkville (2000)
- William Parker & The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2008)
- Digital Primitives : Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch Records, 2009), with Assif Tsahar & Chad Taylor
- William Parker: In Order to Survive: Live / Shapeshifter (2019)
Web links
- Cooper-Moore at Aum Fidelity
- Cooper Moore [sic] on All About Jazz
- Feature by Marc Medwin 2006 in onefinalnote.com
- Cooper-Moore at Allmusic (English)
- Cooper-Moore at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cooper Moore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ashton, Gene Y. (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist, music educator, and instrument maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Virginia , USA |