Billy Moore (musician)
Billy Moore (born December 17, 1917 in Parkersburg , West Virginia , † February 28, 1989 in Copenhagen ), actually William Moore junior, was an American jazz pianist and arranger .
Moore is best known as arranger for several important swing bands of the 1930s. He offered Chick Webb a composition in 1937, but he was only interested in arrangements, which Moore then taught himself. He wrote arrangements for Jimmy Lunceford (which he came to through Sy Oliver's agency ) and Charlie Barnet , for Jan Savitt and Tommy Dorsey. In the 1940s he had his own music publisher to strengthen the rights of arrangers vis-à-vis orchestral conductors (many of his arrangements were called orchestral conductors), but gave up disaffected and moved to Denmark in the early 1950s, where he stayed from then on . He arranged for French bands, accompanied the Peters Sisters in Europe from 1953 to 1960, arranged for the Berliner Rundfunk from 1960 to 1963 and toured with the Delta Rhythm Boys from 1964 to 1966. He later worked in Copenhagen as the administrator of the Ben Webster Foundation.
He made recordings with Lunceford, Barney Bigard and Charlie Barnet.
Lexical entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Billy Moore at Allmusic (English)
- Billy Moore at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Billy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, William (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Parkersburg , West Virginia , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1989 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen , Denmark |