Flyin' the Koop (Stanton Moore album)

Infobox Album
Name = Flyin' the Koop
Type = Studio album
Artist = 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
Reviews = All About Jazz [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=9467 link]
Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfyxq80ldje link]
Last album = "All Kooked Out!" (1998)
This album = "Flyin' the Koop" (2002)
Next album = "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. [http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/article_244.shtml Stanton Moore New Orleans' Sexiest Drummer? Galactic's Skinman Keeps It Up] Christopher Blagg, "offBEAT.com", Mar 1, 2002, Retrieved June 22 2007] 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. 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.

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)

Track listing

# "Tang the Hump"
# "Fallin' Off"
# "Let's Go"
# "Launcho Diablo"
# "Prairie Sunset"
# "Things Fall Apart"
# "Amy's Lament"
# "Magnolia Triangle"
# "Hunch"
# "Bottoms Up"
# "For the Record"
# "Organized Chaos"

References

* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=9467 Flyin' The Koop] Glenn Astarita, "AllAboutJazz.com", March 01, 2002, Retrieved June 22 2007
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfyxq80ldje Flyin' the Koop] Thom Jurek, "AllMusic.com", Retrieved June 22 2007