Cooper-Moore
Cooper -Moore ( born August 31, 1946 in Virginia as genes Y. Ashton ) is an American jazz pianist, composer of free jazz and improvised music as well as the new music teacher and instrument maker.
Life and work
Cooper -Moore grew up in the area of Piedmont / Virginia. He started eight years to learn piano, and first played church music. Under the influence of the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus or Ornette Coleman, he dealt with improvised music. In 1970 he founded with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards Trio Apogee.
He earned a bachelor's degree in music education at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and later he studied composition and arranging at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1973 he moved to New York, where he first appeared as a pianist in clubs and eventually anmietete a loft on Canal Street and adapting it to the work and performance space for artists.
He is currently working with a trio of Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor called Triptych Myth. Another formation under his leadership the trio Digital Primitives to the Chad Taylor and Assif Tsahar belong. He also works in Bill Coles Untempered ensemble with Steve Swell, Susie Ibarra and William Parker, including Parker, he joined with Jeanne Lee Project at New York's Vision Festival 2003. For the avant-garde label AUM Fidelity, he recorded several albums.
In addition to his musical career, he worked in various multimedia projects, such as the Visions of Tomorrow project with the ecologists Sam Love. He also worked with the book artist Susan Share in their project Unfolded World and the Moving Spirits Dance Theater.
Cooper -Moore worked for several years as a teacher 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
Among the many instruments that Cooper -Moore has built, owns the A Deedly -bo, a three-stringed, fretless banjo. In his instruments he used, inter alia, materials such as paper, bamboo, metal, wood and acrylic glass. In addition to his main instrument, the piano, it occurs mainly with his Ashimba, a kind of xylophone on, as well as a bass fiddle, a horizontal harp and an electrically amplified violin mouth. His instruments were presented among others in New York in the Thread Waxing Gallery and the Goddard Riverside Community Center.
Discography
- Cooper -Moore: The Cedar Box Recordings (5 - 7-Inch CD - 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 Punk Ville ( 2000)
- Digital Primitives: Hum Crackle & Pop ( Hopscotch Records, 2009), with Assif Tsahar & Chad Taylor