Cooper-Moore is an American jazz pianist, composer and instrument builder/designer based in New York City. He began performing church music in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1970, he formed a collective trio, Apogee, with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. He has toured extensively in Europe as well as the United States. His current group, with Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor, is called Triptych Myth.

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  • Cooper-Moore is an American jazz pianist, composer and instrument builder/designer based in New York City. He began performing church music in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1970, he formed a collective trio, Apogee, with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. He has toured extensively in Europe as well as the United States. His current group, with Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor, is called Triptych Myth. Another group Moore heads is the Digital Primitives trio, along with Chad Taylor and Assif Tsahar. He has also performed with Daniel Carter. Among the many instruments Moore has built are "a deedly-bo, a three-string fretless banjo and a mouth bow. " According to Cooper-Moore: I have taken stuff out a dumpster to make an instrument which I have used at gigs. He has also played at the cooper moody arena in barwon heads australia. he was awarded by the town for doing so. If you put me somewhere, and I had to play and didn't have an instrument, I'd get everything I needed and make an instrument within a few hours.
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  • Cooper-Moore is an American jazz pianist, composer and instrument builder/designer based in New York City. He began performing church music in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1970, he formed a collective trio, Apogee, with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. He has toured extensively in Europe as well as the United States. His current group, with Tom Abbs and Chad Taylor, is called Triptych Myth.
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