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Double Bass What are albums to get for Michael Moore

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dylanjohnson said:
Anyone know of anything new from Michael Moore? I haven't seen much from him since the Brubeck gig. Thanks for the tip for the piano trio album! Dig this great interview with him from the late 90's. He toured with James Brown! I remember seeing him on credits of JB albums, and assumed it was another Michael Moore. Wild!
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I've heard Michael has retired due to severe back problems.
 
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I just got a great John Bunch trio recording that Michael sounds phenomenal on. It's called: John Bunch Trio-World War II Love Songs. It's recorded well, John Bunch is magnificent and the arrangements are great. Whether playing time or soloing so lyrically and deep, it's clear that Michael is one of the all-time great bass players. The album's subject matter dictated the songs played and these were the pop songs of the World War II era, so don't expect bebop but do expect expert playing of some great standards.
 
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jimi66 said:
Bill Evans live at keystone corner 1978 with Philly Joe Jones is the only one I've heard him on
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Do you perhaps mean The Village Vanguard professionally-mastered boot or is there another one?



FWIW: The "Getting Sentimental" disc has a lot of hidden meaning for me. I started studying with Michael in the fall of 1978, right after he decided to leave The Bill Evans Trio. He never volunteered a word about the experience (but it's worth noting that he chose BE3 pieces for me to work on throughout our time together).

On the "Getting Sentimental" notes Michael talks about how playing in the BE3 was a lifetime goal of his, and how taking the stage on this particular night -- his first performance -- was a true epiphany for him. But listening to the disc shows Philly Joe stepping all over Michael, all the time. The impression that I gathered -- again, not based on anything Michael ever said -- was that playing with Joe was so unsatisfactory that Michael had to give up playing with Bill. Ironically, a few months later Joe was gone and Bill hired Joe LaBarbara, whom Michael worked hand-in-glove with in other settings.

So for me "Getting Sentimental" is a profound reminder that we need to be careful what we wish for in this life.
 
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Thank you for posting this, it's an absolutely great half chorus. It could easily be posted in the Jazz Technique forum too as a great model of how to construct a solo using melody versus scales and licks etc. To my ear MM is playing a new melody over the changes as opposed to outlining the chords. He's done that brilliantly his entire career. He is rare as a soloist in that his solos rarely contain well known licks yet they sound completely like jazz. Lester Young, Paul Desmond and a few others had this quality to their playing. Thank you again, what a great solo.
 
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Michael is also a very funny guy. He once told his musical collaborator and friend, Gene Bertoncini: "It's good to be married to a judge. She spends her whole day with murderers and rapists and other felons, so when she comes home, I actually look GOOD!"
 
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