Michael Moore

Michael Moore (born May 16, 1945, Glen Este, Ohio) is an American jazz bassist.

Moore started on bass at age 15, at Withrow High School in Cincinnati, where he performed in various ensembles as well as the Presentation Orchestra in George G. "Smittie" Smith's famed The Withrow Minstrels. He played with his father in nightclubs in Cincinnati. He attended the Cincinnati College Conservatory, playing with Cal Collins and Woody Evans locally. He toured Africa and Europe with Woody Herman in 1966, and recorded with Dusko Goykovich while in Belgrade.

In the 1970s he worked with Marian McPartland, Freddie Hubbard, Jim Hall, Benny Goodman, Jake Hanna, Warren Vache, Herb Ellis, Zoot Sims, Ruby Braff, George Barnes, Chet Baker, and Lee Konitz. Late in the decade he began working with Gene Bertoncini, with whom he would play into the 1990s. In the 1980s he worked with Sims again as well as with Kenny Barron and Michael Urbaniak.

As of 2008 Moore is a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Discography

As leader

• Plays Gershwin (1995)
• The Intimacy of the Bass (with Rufus Reid) (Double-Time Records, 1999)
• The History of Jazz, Vol. 1 (Arbors Records, 2000)
• The History of Jazz, Vol. 2 (Arbors, 2002)
• Live at Carnegie Hall - 40th Anniversary Concert, Benny Goodman - 1978

As sideman

With Kenny Barron

• 1+1+1 (1984)

With Art Farmer and Jim Hall

• Big Blues (CTI, 1978)

References

• Michael Moore at Allmusic