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In the summer of 1948, Texas tenor saxophonist Wild Bill Moore scored a hit on the R&B charts with a kicking number called "We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll," one of the first tunes whose title combined two words--"Rock" and "Roll"--that would define popular music for the rest of the 20th century, and beyond. Detroit's Wild Bill Moore, played alto sax early in life but his main interest was boxing. He was Michigan's amateur Golden Gloves light heavyweight champ for 1937, later turned pro, went back to sax and by 1945 was recording on tenor sax with the Slim Gaillard Orchestra, on the Queen label

Album

Bottom Groove

By Wild Bill Moore

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2002

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Article: Album Review

Wild Bill Moore: Bottom Groove

Read "Bottom Groove" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 12, 2002

In all honesty, the tile track of this disc, “Heavy Soul,” really says it all. Tenor saxophonist Wild Bill Moore lives up to his name with some rowdy slap tonguing and a clarion call that is not unlike that of another neglected tenor man of the ‘60s, Blue Note’s own Fred Jackson. His high note squawks ...