Flyin' the Koop (Stanton Moore album)

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Flyin' the Koop
Studio album by Stanton Moore
Released	2002
Recorded	January 8-11, 2001 at Prairie Sun Studios, Petaluma, CA
Genre	Jazz, Funk, Groove
Length	52:16
Label	Blue Thumb Records, Verve Music Group
Producer	Jason Olain, Stanton Moore, Nick Sansano
Professional reviews
All About Jazz link All Music Guide link
Stanton Moore chronology
All Kooked Out! (1998) Flyin' the Koop (2002) III (2006)

Flyin' the Koop is the second solo album by New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore. The album includes funk, rock and jazz. Moore's line-up for Flyin' the Koop is in part a combination of musicians with whom he played at a "SuperJam" at Tipitina's during Jazz Fest 2000.^[1] Moore's concept for the album "was to have two saxes, bass and drums, and to improvise over loops..." building the tracks upon rhythm. Melodies then developed through improvisation by the saxophonists.^[1] For Flyin' the Koop Moore plays vintage Gretsch drums with an 18-inch bass drum. Wood plays upright and Hoffner bass. Many fans speculated at first that the name of the solo album implied that Moore could be leaving his band Galactic. Moore explained that the metaphor which regarded "freeing yourself from the limitations" of music styles was combined with the location of the recording studio being on a chicken farm in Petaluma, California.^[1]

[edit] Musicians

• Stanton Moore - drums
• Karl Denson - saxophone, flute (Lenny Kravitz, The Greyboy Allstars)
• Skerik - saxophone (Les Claypool, Critters Buggin)
• Chris Wood - bass (Medeski, Martin and Wood)
• Brian Seeger - guitar (New Orleans guitarist)

[edit] Track listing

1. "Tang the Hump"
2. "Fallin' Off"
3. "Let's Go"
4. "Launcho Diablo"
5. "Prairie Sunset"
6. "Things Fall Apart"
7. "Amy's Lament"
8. "Magnolia Triangle"
9. "Hunch"
10. "Bottoms Up"
11. "For the Record"
12. "Organized Chaos"

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Stanton Moore New Orleans' Sexiest Drummer? Galactic's Skinman Keeps It Up Christopher Blagg, offBEAT.com, Mar 1, 2002, Retrieved June 22, 2007

• Flyin' The Koop Glenn Astarita, AllAboutJazz.com, March 01, 2002, Retrieved June 22, 2007
• Flyin' the Koop Thom Jurek, AllMusic.com, Retrieved June 22, 2007