Misplaced Pages

Don Moore (born 1937) is an American jazz double-bassist.

Moore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became interested in the bass around the age of 18. He played and recorded with Archie Shepp, Don Cherry and others in the New York Contemporary Five in Europe in 1963. Later in the 1960s Moore worked with Jackie McLean. He recorded with Elvin Jones in 1966 and Clifford Thornton in 1967.

Discography

With Elvin Jones

• Midnight Walk (Atlantic, 1966)

With Jackie McLean

• Jacknife (Blue Note, 1966)

With The New York Art Quartet

• Call It Art (Triple Point, 2013)

With Archie Shepp

• Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (Storyville, 1963)

With Clifford Thornton

• Freedom & Unity (Third World Records, 1967)

With Rahsaan Roland Kirk

• Kirk in Copenhagen (Mercury, 1964)

References

Footnotes

1. ^ Holmes, Terrell Kent (May 28, 2006). "Don Moore". AllAboutJazz. Retrieved December 28, 2020.

General references

• "Don Moore". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.

• 1937 births
• Living people
• American jazz double-bassists
• American male double-bassists
• Musicians from New York (state)
• Jazz musicians from Philadelphia
• 21st-century American double-bassists
• 21st-century American male musicians
• American male jazz musicians
• New York Contemporary Five members