Michael Moore (saxophonist and clarinetist)

Michael Moore
Michael Moore with the ICP in Chicago 2004.
Background information
Born	(1954-12-04) December 4, 1954 (age 62)
Origin	Eureka, California, U.S.
Genres	Avant-garde jazz Free improvisation
Instruments	Clarinet Saxophone
Years active	1970s–present
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

Michael Moore (born December 4, 1954) is an American-born jazz musician (clarinet, saxophone) and composer who has resided in the Netherlands since 1982.

Moore was born and raised in Eureka, California, the son of a semi-professional musician. 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's. Moore played in a wide 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 relocated to Amsterdam. He remains active in ICP to this day. He also was member of Georg Gräwes Grubenklang Orchester.

Aside from ICP, Moore is perhaps best known as one-third of the Clusone Trio (aka Trio Clusone and Clusone 3), along 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 CDs, 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 serious recognition as a composer. The drummerless trio on this CD (Fred Hersch, piano, and Mark Helias, bass) was inspired by the duo recordings of Lee Konitz and Gil Evans, and recalls in places the legendary Jimmy Giuffre trios of the early 1960s.