Ralph Moore

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Ralph Moore (* 24. December 1956 in Brixton / London , UK) is an American jazz - tenor and soprano saxophonist of hard bop .

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Ralph Moore came to the United States in 1970; In 1972 he moved to California to live with his father and played in the jazz orchestra at Santa Maria High School . In 1975 he studied at Berklee College of Music . In 1981 he moved to New York, where his professional musician career began. He played in Horace Silver's quintet, with whom he toured Europe and Japan. A busy sideman, Moore also worked with Roy Haynes , the Mingus Dynasty and Freddie Hubbard in the years that followed . In the summer of 1987 he went on tour with Dizzy Gillespie's Reunion Big Band. Ralph Moore also played on records by Kenny Barron ( Invitation ), Ray Brown, Kevin Eubanks , Dusko Goykovich ( Bebop City , 1995), Gene Harris , Roy Haynes ( True or False , 1986), Bill Mays , Valery Ponomarev , Jimmy Knepper ( Dream Dancing , 1986) and the Brian Lynch Sextet . He performed with JJ Johnson in New York's Village Vanguard .

From the mid-1980s, Moore recorded a number of albums on the Criss Cross Jazz label , with accompanying musicians such as Steve Turre , Mulgrew Miller and Marvin Smitty Smith on his 1988 album Rejuvenate! . In 1996 he played with Roy Hargrove with Oscar Peterson ( Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore , Telarc). In the same year Hargrove and Moore worked on Cedar Walton's album The Composer .

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SURNAME Moore, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tenor and soprano saxophonist)
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK