Instruments Clarinet
Saxophone Years active 1970s–present | Name Michael Moore Role Musician | |
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Born December 4, 1954 (age 69) ( 1954-12-04 ) Genres Avant-garde jazz
Free improvisation Associated acts Michael Moore Trio
Michael Moore Quintet
Michael Moore Quartet
ICP Orchestra
Clusone Trio
Available Jelly
The Persons
Gerry Hemingway Quintet
Gerry Hemingway Quartet
Jewels and Binoculars Music groups Clusone Trio, Rose Royce (Since 1973) Education New England Conservatory of Music, Humboldt State University Albums Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom, The Very Best of Rose Roy, Rose Royce IV: Rainbow, Car Wash: Original Motion Pi, Rose Royce III: Strikes A | ||
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Michael Moore (born December 4, 1954) is an American jazz musician who has lived in the Netherlands since 1982.
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Background and career
The son of a semi-professional musician, Moore was born and raised in Eureka, California. He studied music at Humboldt State and in 1977 graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Jaki Byard and Gunther Schuller, and was a classmate of Marty Ehrlich. He played in a variety of musical contexts, especially those in support of theatre and dance groups. By 1982 he was a regular member of Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool and had moved to Amsterdam. He also was member of Georg Gräwe's Grubenklang Orchester.
Moore is one-third of the Clusone Trio (aka Trio Clusone and Clusone 3) with cellist Ernst Reijseger and drummer Han Bennink. Originally meant only to play a single date at a festival in Clusone, Italy, the trio toured irregularly for several years and recorded six albums, including one of freely-interpreted Irving Berlin compositions.
Moore's first recording as a leader was in 1992 but it was with 1994's Chicoutimi that he began to earn recognition as a composer. The drummerless trio on this album (Fred Hersch, piano, and Mark Helias, bass) was inspired by the duo recordings of Lee Konitz and Gil Evans and recalls in places the Jimmy Giuffre trios of the early 1960s.
More also plays in Jewels and Binoculars, a collective trio with bassist Lindsey Horner and drummer Michael Vatcher which is devoted to interpretations of Bob Dylan songs. In 1986, Moore won the VPRO/Boy Edgar Award, the most prestigious jazz award in the Netherlands. In 1991, he founded Ramboy Records to document his music.
Moore started his jazz quintet in 2005. In this quintet, he works with accomplished Dutch players: trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, pianist Marc van Roon, bassist Paul Berner, and drummer Owen Hart, Jr. In October 2005, the quintet recorded the album Osiris.
In 2013, he performed with InstanPool, a group of international musicians making improved music and occasionally playing a composition. InstanPool consists of Michael Moore and Mark Alban Lotz (winds), Korhan Erel and Robert van Heumen (laptops), Sevket Akinci and Giray Gürkal (guitars, electronics). Some members are also in Islak_Köpek.
Discography
With Dave Douglas