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Kendall Moore

Kendall Moore is an active trombonist, composer, and arranger in the Miami metropolitan area. In 2008, he received his B.M. in Jazz Studies from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, where he studied with Tom Garling and Jay Friedman. In 2010, he received his Master’s Degree in Studio Jazz Writing from University of Miami, where he studied under Gary Lindsay, Whit Sidener, and Dante Luciani. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Jazz Performance from the University of Miami.

While at Roosevelt University, Kendall was given the opportunity to play with guest artists such as Ralph Bowen, Wycliffe Gordon, Rob McConnell, John Swana, Paul Wertico, and Lew Soloff.

At the University of Miami, Kendall has been a member of the school’s premier large ensemble, the Concert Jazz Band, and has had the opportunity to work with such artists as Gary Burton, Sam Rivers, Chris Potter, Dave Koz, Eric Marienthal, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, and many others. Kendall has also been a member of the critically acclaimed Henry Mancini Institute Studio Orchestra (recently featured on HBO with Robert Klein’s Comedy Special), and performed with such artists as Patti Austin, Nestor Torrez, Will Lee, Jon Secada, Ricky Skaggs, and many others.

Kendall has received accolades as a composer and arranger. In 2009, he received the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award, and in 2010, received the ASCAP Foundation Henry Mancini Fellowship. Recently he arranged music for the January 2014 premiere of “Jazz at the Philharmonic”, which aired nationally on PBS and is currently arranging large ensemble works for Khristian Dentley (vocalist in Take 6) and Milton Suggs.

In his professional performance career, he has performed with McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Heath, Herlin Riley, and many others as a member of large ensembles. In the small group jazz setting, he has had the opportunity to perform with and arrange music for artists such as Winard Harper, Robert Irving III and many others. In addition to performing with ensembles such as the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and South Florida Jazz Orchestra, Kendall has performed on many occasions with his own ensembles in the Chicago and Miami metropolitan areas.

Awards

2010 ASCAP Foundation Henry Mancini Award 2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award


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Kendall Moore: Focus

Read "Focus" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Trombonist and composer Kendall Moore's debut, Focus, exhibits remarkable maturity and an exquisite harmonic sense. The six originals are intricately constructed and orchestrated in intriguing patterns. Each one is imbued with an individualized mood and varying degrees of dramatic tension. The cinematic “Fellowship" opens with pianist Angelo Versace's sparse haunting keystrokes. The ensemble's languid, long lines unfurl with nocturnesque flair ushering in bassist Gary Thomas' lithe, lyrical solo. The stimulating tightly interwoven reverberations give way to Moore's erudite, ...

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Kendall Moore: Focus

Read "Focus" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Chicago native Kendall Moore is a trombonist and composer currently pursuing a Doctorate degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Miami and has been part of South Florida's vibrant jazz scene for some time. Forging a career that has enabled him to perform with such icons as Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Jimmy Heath and others, Moore now presents his debut album as leader with stunning Focus, a project of contemporary, straight ahead jazz offering a sensational selection ...

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Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

Read "Ready for Reed" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Alto saxophonist Sam Reed is legend in the Philadelphia jazz scene who was leader of the 1950s band, Sam Reed and the All-Stars, worked uptown theatre for a while, performed with pop and R&B stars and served as the musical director for Teddy Pendergrass just to mention a few highlights from his long musical resume . On the boppish Ready for Reed, Italian paints of note, Roberto Magris joins forces with the sax man in a a tribute to one ...

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Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

Read "Ready for Reed" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Italian-born Pianist Roberto Magris, never one to let labels stand in the way of tasteful and invigorating music, skates from funk to fusion, blues to bop and even ballads on this prismatic album with guest alto Sam Reed, a longtime trouper on the Philadelphia scene who cut his musical teeth with the likes of trumpeter Ted Curson, pianist Bobby Timmons and the redoubtable Heath brothers (Albert, Percy and especially saxophonist Jimmy). Reed, now well into his seventies, holds his own ...

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Roberto Magris: Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed

Read "Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready for Reed" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Italian pianist Roberto Magris has become the hard bop keeper-of-the- flame with recent J-Mood releases including Mating Call (2010), Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan Vol. 1 (2012) and One Night in With Hope and More...Vol. 1 (2012), volume designations making clear there is more to come. On Sam Reed Meets Roberto Magris: Ready For Reed, Magris reintroduces Philadelphia saxophonist Sam Reed, who, after a lifetime in music, took some time off but was ultimately rediscovered. ...

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Focus

Self Produced
2015

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Focus

Self Produced
2014

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Ready for Reed

Lucky Kitchen
2013

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Sam Reed Meets...

J-Mood Records
2013

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Focus

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