Jazz Articles about Richard Moore

About Richard Moore

Album Review

“File under spoken word,” doesn’t quite describe the terrain we are traversing on Richard Moore’s Now What Now. The singer/songwriter teams up with percussionist Dave Storrs (The Tone Sharks, Boundary Issues, Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley) and bassist Page Hundemer (The Tone Sharks, Whirled Jazz) for three days of philosophically based improvised music.

Richard Moore is to Ken Nordine’s ‘word jazz’ as Howard Hughes was to lost highway drifters. His weltanschauung is that of a post 9-11 American Buddhist. ...

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Album Review

Richard Moore: Now What Now

by Dan McClenaghan
May 25, 2002

Dark Ruminations, tintinnabulations, wails and groans, squeaks and moans, washes of menacing background noise--an existential sountrack for a burgeoning century. That's Richard Moore's Now What Now on Louie Records, one of the more adventurous jazz labels around.

“It's O.K. to have that big question mark there." So says Moore, on his slow-burning new-millennium rant about a “Little Scientist Guy" (track 3) “...messing around with some fundamental stuff." (DNA)

Louie Records, based in percussionist Dave Storrs converted ...