Jazz Articles about Michael Moore

Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages

by Brandt Reiter
February 23, 2005

A chunky stew of countless cultural influences and myriad musical forms, jazz has always stolen freely from just about anything it could get its hands on. This unfettered kleptomania has always been key to music's vibrant nature, yet at the same time has made the music itself increasingly difficult to define. Case in point: pathologically restless trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Mountain Passages , the first release by his newly minted Greenleaf label. The 41-year-old Douglas, who seems intent on ...

Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages

by Jim Santella
January 31, 2005

Dave Douglas wrote the music for Mountain Passages at the request of the festival at The Sound of the Dolomites. The band hiked up to Rifugio Boe in Valle di Fassa and to Rifugio Brentei, near Madonna di Campliglio in the Alps of northern Italy, and played the music for hundreds of fans who had hiked up to hear them. Later, they put the music together again in a studio.Douglas' modern mainstream jazz offers various moods. The band ...

Dave Douglas/Nomad: Mountain Passages

by John Kelman
January 20, 2005

With trumpeter Dave Douglas the only clear thing to expect is the unexpected. His work has ranged from tribute albums to Wayne Shorter and Booker Little to Eastern European explorations with his Tiny Bell Trio; from the electronica of Freak In to post-Miles excursions on The Infinite. While developing a personal vernacular that blends staggeringly through-composed music with flights of pure improvisation, Douglas has steadfastly stuck to a philosophy asserting that everything is permitted.

The only rule is: there are ...

Michael Moore: Floater & White Widow

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 18, 2004

Jewels and Binoculars Floater Ramboy 2004 (2000)

With a reputation as a brilliant songwriter who can't sing, Bob Dylan is no doubt up there with Cole Porter and the Gershwin brothers as the most oft interpreted pop bards of the 20th century. The Byrds and Joan Baez owe their careers to him and scores of others do just for his opening the '60s folk movement to a mass audience. But what's ...

The Michael Moore Trio: The History of Jazz, Volume 2: Dedications

by AAJ Staff
November 1, 2002

Three talented guys have combined to produce a great listen on the Dixieland scene with “The History of Jazz: Volume 2: Dedications.” Michael Moore comes together with Ken Peplowski and Tom Melito to form the Michael Moore Trio for this look back at the traditions of Jazz. The album features six original Michael Moore tunes dedicated to jazz giants, and the balance of the project is filled with remembrances of such artists as Cannonball Adderley, Ray Noble and Johann Sebastian ...

Michael Moore: Michael Moore and his Trio: Volume 1

by Mike Neely
May 1, 2000

What quickly becomes obvious listening to Michael Moore and his Trio is the refined taste and the casual virtuosity of one of the great bass players of our time. Over the years Moore has played alongside an encyclopedic list of jazz notables including Bill Evans and Stan Getz. On this disc he anchors an excellent trio that includes Ken Peplowski on clarinet and tenor saxophone and Tom Melito on drums.

There is a spare, open sound to the trio that ...