50 Miles of Elbow Room is based in Brooklyn NY and directed by Adam Lore, with essential help from many gifted contributors. Activities under the 50 Miles moniker began in 1998, born out of a desire to disseminate information regarding Cooper-Moore, Daniel Carter, the No-Neck Blues Band, and others. Over the years, 50 Miles' focus has largely been on free jazz/improvisation and other American vernacular music.

50 Miles of Elbow Room #1, a print publication featuring the above artists plus Rev. Louis Overstreet, Prince Far I, and Matthew Shipp, was released in 2000. A second issue was published in 2002, with articles about Hamid Drake, Rev. Charlie Jackson, Louis Moholo, Otha Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, June Tyson, and Robert Pete Williams. Contributors have included Lynn Abbott, John Allen, Yancey Allison, Daniel Carter, Fitz Gitler, Matthew Heyner, Eric Hoffsten, Steven Joerg, David Nuss, Clare O'Dea, William Parker, John Fell Ryan, Phil Schaap, Matthew Shipp, David Shuford, and Thierry Trombert.

50 Miles of Elbow Room has also produced or co-presented concerts by artists such as The Organic Trio, Isaiah Owens, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Cooper-Moore and William Parker, as well as a benefit/tribute for Otha Turner and Bernice Turner Pratcher. A program, subsequently catalogued as 50 Miles of Elbow Room #3, was produced and given to attendees of the lattermost concert.

50 Miles of Elbow Room #4 is set of five 7" records of solo recordings by Cooper-Moore, housed in a branded cedar wood box and accompanied by a 16-page booklet. Released in 2004 as a numbered edition of 300, it is out-of-print but might be obtainable at Jazz Record Center.

50 Miles' endeavors have received positive critical notice from The Wire, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Other Music, Time Out New York, The Onion, International Design, Paste Magazine, Signal to Noise, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Tiny Mix Tapes, Boston Globe, Living Blues, CMJ Monthly, and other publications.

This site was launched in late 2006. 50 Miles of Elbow Room #5, the first of at least 3 volumes of live recordings by Rev. Charlie Jackson, was released on LP in late August 2011, followed by a second volume (50MOER 6) in September 2012.  That same month, 50 Miles also brought RL Boyce up from Mississippi to play a few intimate and very memorable gigs in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. A Cooper-Moore / Lonnie Holley double-bill was co-organized with the Whitney Museum as part of the "Blues for Smoke" exhibit on March 22, 2013.

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