Don Moore (musician)
Donald Graham Moore (August 14, 1938 – June 10, 2025) was an American jazz double-bassist.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Moore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 14, 1938.[1] He became interested in the bass around the age of 18.[1] He played and recorded with Archie Shepp, Don Cherry and others in the New York Contemporary Five in Europe in 1963.[1] Later in the 1960s Moore worked with Jackie McLean.[1] He recorded with Elvin Jones in 1966 and Clifford Thornton in 1967.[1]
Moore died on June 10, 2025, at the age of 86.[2]
Discography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f Holmes, Terrell Kent (May 28, 2006). "Don Moore". AllAboutJazz. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ "Official Obituary of Donald Graham Moore". boulevardfuneralhome.com. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
- General references
- "Don Moore". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.