Stanton Moore here!

Hello All,

I am not a "second line" type however, this "composite" from New Breed (note: the asterisk measure) THAT ONE measure as a groove in the style of "New Orleans Second line" drumming... seems to fit the style..

stantons work on corrosion of conformitys arms of god album was fantastic, made that band sound so much more drum technical more than any other drummer ever has for coc. Ill have to say my fav album from coc is arms of god with stanton moore on drums.

I watched a couple of his solo's and him teaching and i just couldn't see it. He seemed kinda egotistical and i wasn't super impressed with his playing. Maybe i need to check some more videos out. Any recommendations

been working out of Groove Alchemy again recently, specifically diving into the James Brown section. great book!

guygroomes85 said:

I watched a couple of his solo's and him teaching and i just couldn't see it. He seemed kinda egotistical and i wasn't super impressed with his playing. Maybe i need to check some more videos out. Any recommendations

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Troll bait?

I went to one of his recent jazz trio shows. The guy was extremely nice during the show and utterly refused to take a bow, despite it being his trio. He kept deferring praise to the guy playing bass (a real weirdo with Doc Brown hair and a question mark suit on, but man he could play) and the pianist.

Afterwards he stood in the corner to greet people and sign autographs, something few of the acts do. I was second in line behind a woman with 40 things she was clearly going to sell on eBay, but he signed everything with a smile, talked to everyone in the line, even let me make a joke about how short he is and waited patiently for us to frame him and me in pictures.

As for the playing: it's New Orleans jazz and second-line, it's supposed to sound a little loose. But I don't know of any other player that comes close to his level in that genre.

guygroomes85 said:

I watched a couple of his solo's and him teaching and i just couldn't see it. He seemed kinda egotistical and i wasn't super impressed with his playing. Maybe i need to check some more videos out. Any recommendations

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Yes. go to one of his clinics. he is far from egotistical and in person you would be impressed believe me.

I saw Stanton with Galactic in Pittsburgh at the Rex, I was right up front and man....that band was killer. His grooves are soooo tasteful and tight. What a great time.

His Stanton Moore III album is a Groove Masterpiece!

Stanton Moore was here tonight in Portland at the Aladdin Theater for $25. I skipped it due to the coronavirus pandemic. In fact I'm not playing in a band for the foreseeable future, until this thing is over. Might be a few months, a year.

You will not be able to stop your head!

whatever happened to his Crescent line of cymbals. He's playing Zildjian now.

GruntersDad said:

whatever happened to his Crescent line of cymbals. He's playing Zildjian now.

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Funny you ask - I met Stanton Moore at NAMM years ago and it all happened because of his crazy cymbal journey.

We happened to be in the lunch line together and I was so stoked because I just signed with Bosphorus : at the time they were promoting his signature line, etc. so I took the oppurtunity to say "Hey man - I just signed with Bosphorus and I'm going to pick up some of you cymbals! look at me go!" haha - and he was SO nice when he informed me that he he had actually just left Bosphorus to start Crescent Cymbals and took me over to the booth haha.

So him and Jeff Hamilton - these ex Bosphorus folks - started Crescent cymbals. edit: Drummers Michael Vosbein and Bill Norman also started it with them.

Those eventually got purchased by Sabian - who has the Crescent line.

And now - Stanton announced that he is playing with Zildjian - I'm sure there will be some kind of "New Orleans" line that comes from it.

So you can get one of his "Pang Thangs" from Bosphorus (now called the Groove Series and that cymbals [with the HUGE hammer marks] is called the Dirty Crash.

Or you can the Crescent line from Sabian - Which seems to have removed some of the Stanton Moore cymbals - and now focus on the Jeff Hamilton signature cymbals.

And I'm sure we'll see a line coming from Zildjian.

Crazy! (Now he just needs a Paiste line haha)


Here's a page from his website where he demos the Sabian cymbals (which don't seem to be available any longer) - probably fun to watch these official Sabian videos before they disappear!:

Got to take a lesson with Stanton and I've seen him play a ton in Nola. Sat in on a gig with him once too and had a few conversations with him. He's a real hard worker, very nice guy and when he's in his element an absolute joy to watch playing. Big fan, he's got the sauce!

Stanton Moore talks about his snare drum collection.

Stanton is a New Orleans legend, in the history of the city only Johnny Vidacovich is more legendary than him.
I truly love his solo albums, the ones with his trio, the Galactic project and Garage A Trois with Skerik and Mike Dillon..

As a beginning drummer, I stumbled onto Stanton Moore through his album Flyin' the Koop, and I think it had a bigger impact on me than I realized at the time. I was starting college and was most deeply into really sleek and technical ECM style jazz, 70s prog and all that, then here comes this naked, relentless energy that's barely even contained to a steady tempo, but it just feels so greasy and fun and right. I found myself getting pulled back into and exploring more of early New Orleans funk, Motown & Muscle Shoals, Gene Krupa, Ginger Baker, Ornette Coleman, the Stones; basically anything that was greasy with a relentlessly joyful energetic beat, the sort of thing where everyone nails the downbeats but who knows what's going on in between. I also really got into participating in Ghanaian dance-drumming about that time, and I think it's because I could feel that second line pulse in the polyrhythms.