| The Unpredictability of Predictability | ||||
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| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | July 6, 1979 | |||
| Venue | Soundscape, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | About Time Records AT-1002 | |||
| Producer | Jerome Cooper, Verna Gillis | |||
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The Unpredictability of Predictability is a live solo percussion album by Jerome Cooper. It was recorded in July 1979 at Soundscape in New York City, and was released on LP by About Time Records later that year.[1][2]
On the album, Cooper plays a variety of instruments, including flute, whistle, balaphone, chirimia, bass drum, cymbal, drums, and tom tom. Writer John Szwed commented: "Cooper added a balafon and horns to his kit... so that he could play like an old-time one-man band (though the results sounded more African than African American)".[3]
In the album liner notes, Cooper wrote: "This is not just an album for drummers... anyone into music can dig this music. Classical music people can dig it because it's structured. People into rock, because of the beat, people into jazz because of the improvisational aspect, and those into ethnic music because of the instruments involved".[4]
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- ^ Szwed, John (2013). "The Antiquity of the Avant-Garde: A Meditation on a Comment by Duke Ellington". In Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Rob (eds.). People Get Ready : The Future of Jazz is Now!. Duke University Press. p. 54.
- ^ Cooper, Jerome (1979). The Unpredictability of Predictability (liner notes). Jerome Cooper. About Time Records. AT-1002.