The Unpredictability of Predictability is a live solo percussion album by Jerome Cooper.

[4] In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick wrote: "This superb musician... treats his solo performances as free-standing compositions scored for only certain instruments from which he extracts huge volumes of sounds and rhythms... Cooper has no interest in wowing the listener by playing fast or loud, but simply desires to develop lovely rhythms and melodic patterns and allow them to flower.

A fine recording and wonderful antidote for those who claim to be bored by drum solos.

"[1] Author W. C. Bamberger stated that, in "Movement A, B", a listener "coming to an album billed as solo percussion with expectations of a certain busy-ness" must "let Cooper set his own terms", while in "Movement C", one can "most clearly hear the effects of Cooper's conception of the drum kit as a confederation of separate instruments" as he plays "a kind of lively Q&A session between drums, and between drum and hi-hat".

[8] Drummer Tyshawn Sorey included the recording in a list of "albums featuring live drums that have inspired me over the years".