Comments on like rain whispers mist: Triptych Myth

hello i ask that you please remove my photo of coo...

2009-10-24T12:31:24.782-04:00

hello
i ask that you please remove my photo of cooper moore from your blog.
you are using this image without my permission and i do not approve of it. furthermore i even have a thing on my flickr profile clearly stating that i do not want my photos used without my permission. i ask that you please remove this asap

john rogers

FYI, the complete Hopscotch catalog is available a...

2007-11-27T11:21:00.000-05:00

FYI, the complete Hopscotch catalog is available at eMusic here.

one more thing: i did not realize at the time ...

2007-11-26T02:21:00.000-05:00

one more thing:
i did not realize at the time it wouldn't last: fred anderson with these trios and quartets at the velvet lounge in chicago's south side with either tatsu aoki or harrison bankhead, sometimes jeff parker on guitar, and either hamid drake or chad taylor on drums. wowwww! fred, for his free-jazz cred, is amazing but he is a somewhat formulaic player to some. he relies on a full-bodied tone and rhythmic licks, which throws some people off, who want to see some sort of exhibitionist atonal freak show. but the whole point is: fred is a rhythm player, the fun of the night is to see him run with hamid or chad taylor. tatsu would hold down the bottom, and the drummers would roll with it, variation after energetic variation. fred plays tenor like gene ammons playing trap set and chad lets go. chad with cooper-moore?! oh shit!

i am a sucker for the mix of atonal energy and mel...

2007-11-26T02:14:00.000-05:00

i am a sucker for the mix of atonal energy and melodic lyricism. thanks for the tip, dan, though a lot of that hopscotch stuff is out of print. relating to susie ibarra, that seems to be the link with which she has divided with a certain segment of the free jazz community. she's married to robert rodriguez now?? ugh, avant-jazz cannot afford to be divided into gossipers and personal rifts! beautiful music is what counts.
full disclosure, though, i'll side with almost anything ibarra does. she is brilliant, as is cooper-moore. but assif put forth some stunning playing of his own on the solo "ayn le any."
wow. happy thanksgiving, everybody.

jb, the earlier Tryptich Myth album is on Assif Ts...

2007-11-23T12:22:00.000-05:00

jb, the earlier Tryptich Myth album is on Assif Tsahar's label Hopscotch. You can still purchase it as far as I know. IMO, The Beautiful is a superior album.

Cooper-moore is the baddest motherfucker ever. the...

2007-11-18T08:09:00.000-05:00

Cooper-moore is the baddest motherfucker ever.
there's an earlier triptych myth cd out there too, i've been told, but i've not gotten my hands on it yet. however, i do have "deep in the neighborhood of history and influence," a stunning solo piano concert of cooper-moore's that shows him firmly in the lineage of andrew hill, cecil taylor, jaki byard and don pullen without sounding really like any of these guys.
speaking of william parker, i've heard there's some story for why "in order to survive" broke up. do you know this, mike? i also loved cooper-moore's work in susie ibarra's trio, but it seems like she is not playing with any of those people anymore... :(
in conclusion: more triptych myth. if AUM is planning more releases by this group, someone needs to start buggin steven joerg to get on that shit.

This is really nice...

2007-11-17T13:57:00.000-05:00

This is really nice...

This is really a beautiful album, and apparently p...

2007-11-17T13:14:00.000-05:00

This is really a beautiful album, and apparently part of a "Triptych" of Triptych Myth albums to come out on Aum Fidelity - or at least that was the original plan. I look forward to more from the band in the future.