muzycy:
Cooper-Moore: piano
Tom Abbs: bass
Chad Taylor: drums

Editor's info:
In March of 2005, AUM Fidelity joined forces with Cooper-Moore and his extraordinary trio at the time, Triptych Myth. This was the first result – a tremendous album of work exquisitely captured live in the studio a few weeks after the agreement was signed.

The Beautiful ranges from gorgeously melodic (heart-breaking and re-building) new songs from Cooper-Moore, tone-poem explorations of the now, new definitions of swing, excursions into energy music that will confound pre-conceived notions, New American Folktales waiting for the New America to be born, and cinematic colorations that carve sound into mountains. All True.

Cooper-Moore played piano as a child prodigy in churches near his birthplace in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. His first group was the collective trio Apogee with David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. In more recent times, he was/remains a foundational/core member of William Parker’s In Order To Survive quartet. He is a composer of the highest beauty order, a designer and builder of musical instruments, and has often times been referred to in reverent tones as a musical genius.

Chad Taylor’s distinct voice and distinguished rhythmic/tonal vocabulary has been heard to great effect in performance with musicians representing widely varied schools from Fred Anderson to John Zorn. He has also recorded or collaborated with Tortoise, Isotope 217, Sam Prekop, Stereolab, Mouse on Mars and Jim O’Rourke, and is a core member of the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet and Orchestra.

Tom Abbs’ large buoyant tone, versatility, and depth as a player led him to work with Butch Morris, Charles Gayle, Roy Campbell, Jemeel Moondoc, Billy Bang and many others. His rich tonal vocabulary and flexible rhythmic firmament are.......
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