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Solo Piano #2
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CD-R
$10/autographed
Remarkable & restless solo piano, a studio recording from 2012. "Cluster Blue," the expanded barrelhouse inspired by the style of his old family friend Mr. Gene Quickley, always grabs ears. No jewel case, as issued. 22 tracks; 55 minutes. Hear Track 1 aka Cluster Blue, Track 10, Track 12, & Track 21.

Self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Deep in the Neighborhood of History and Influence
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CD-R
$5/standard or $10/autographed
Live solo piano recording c.1999 in Guelph, Canada. Remastered from the original, long out of print Hopscotch pressing. “The ultimate underground jazz document, this is a lo-fi, live solo-piano lecture-concert bursting with personality. Cooper-Moore puts standup-routine eulogies, rants and preambles around a variety of moods, including hailstone-abrasive improvisations, Ellingtonian chords, boogie-woogie, & ballads. His irrepressibility is hard to resist.” - Ben Ratliff, NY Times. No jewel case, as issued. Hear All of a Sudden, A Float, & Waltz.

Originally released on Hopscotch, this version was self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Looking Back One
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$5/standard or $10/autographed
First retrospective of home & other recordings by Cooper-Moore includes the mammoth mouth bow drone of “Black Strap Sweet,” mesmerizing “Banjo Arba Minch Garden,” a beautiful spiritual in “Steal Away,” several vocal pieces, & more. Intimate glimpses of a fearless creative artist at work. No jewel case, as issued. 16 songs; 40 minutes. Hear Black Strap Sweet, Steal Away, & Banjo - Arba Minch Garden.

Self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Looking Back Two
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$5 standard or $10/autographed
This 2nd retrospective of home & other recordings by Cooper-Moore features diddley-bow jump blues & laments, a few solo piano pieces, a discombobulating synth piece dedicated to William Parker, and a few flute & bass duos with Clayton Thomas. No jewel case, as issued. 11 songs; 40 minutes. Hear Afro American Fragment, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, & Clayton & Me #4.

Self-produced by C-M in conjunction with him being awarded the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts for Art / the Vision Festival.
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Let's Try It Again
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CD
$7
Restocked; reduced price. Quite scarce & mighty fine self-released CD by the late, great, & missed percussionist Cleve Pozar c.1999. From Pozar’s liner notes: “The rhythms on this CD are performed on bata, the sacred drums of Santeria, a Cuban religion that combines Yoruba beliefs from West Africa with Roman Catholicism. Let’s Try it Again combines bata rhythms of the gods - unedited - with Orisha, jazz, pop, and folk songs arranged for trombones. … Because the bata are played in a religious context and because I am using the rhythms and songs of Ocha, I went to Ifa before I began this project. Divination by Babalawo Ifa Miwa gave me permission - and told me not to stop until I was finished. This is Obatala’s CD. I have been helped by all the Orisha, but especially by Los Guerreros, Ochun, Yemaya, and San Lazaro.”

Pozar always wholeheartedly & obsessively pursued his individual, wide-ranging vision, whether it is playing be-bop, free, Latin music, bata, electronic percussion, funk, or early ragtime pieces by artists such as George Hamilton Green. This disc is another document of that sincere, free spirit. Hear Naima & Footprints.

See also this interview with Pozar regarding his classic Cleve Solo Percussion album.
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Global Jungle
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LP
$32
First LP edition of this 1982 Sonny Simmons session previously issued on cassette & CD. Hand-numbered pressing of 100 copies, issued December 2024.

From the CD liner notes: "Sonny Simmons is a revered & unrelenting pioneer, one of the remaining few. His dozen or so recordings from 1961-1970 established him as one of the most exciting new horn players of that era. During the '70s and '80s, Simmons stayed true to his art form, writing some of his major compositions, working with local musicians, and 'dealing with it.' Unfortunately, this time period produced little recorded material.

"Global Jungle is one of the rare recordings that captures Simmons' prolific work of the 1980s. Listening to these compositions, one hears searing white hot saxophone, the long winded legato, & multiple tonguing techniques for which Simmons is noted. The fluidity of this recording is further enhanced by the spontaneous and direct response from the rhythm section. Global Jungle is raw and real. It is life drama."

Notes & background regarding this LP edition: "In 1982, I booked time in a home studio in Oakland, California. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the name of this studio. I had been studying & performing with Sonny Simmons in the Bay Area in the early ’80s. I thought it was important to get into a studio to record this music. We recorded 4 tracks. Later we would return with a different bassist & record three more. In my youth, & broke as a joke, it seemed logical at the time to quickly mix the first 2-inch tape & then re-use that same tape for the second recording date, thus erasing the original master tape. Eight years later, I released a cassette tape, Global Jungle, followed by a remix on CD. 42 years later, I found a cassette tape of the very first rough mix of the original session that had been erased. The mix was very different from the released Global Jungle & contained a composition that I had written for Sonny, titled 'H.P.S. Zoarious.' This session, as Sonny would say, captures a real life drama, & a 'Play for your life Mother**ckers' moment in time." -Kirk Heydt

The compositions found on this LP edition: "The Global Jungle," "Steel Foundry of Love," The Global Prayer," & "H.P.S. Zoarious." Notable also for a rare 1980s appearance by Earl Freeman.

Sonny Simmons: alto saxophone
Kirk Charles Heydt: cello
Earl Freeman: electric fretless bass
Perry Thoorsell: acoustic bass (on 3 of the 4 tracks)
Dylan Morgan: drums