Home Game, by Michael Moore Quintet

Home Game

by Michael Moore Quintet

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1.	Home Game 03:16	buy track
2.	Softly 05:20	buy track
3.	Dante 04:23	buy track
4.	Providence 05:00	buy track
5.	Clean Man 03:33	buy track
6.	Suburban Housewives 08:19	buy track
7.	Redman's 03:57	buy track
8.	Marylin 01:05	buy track
9.	Breathing Out Of Habit 03:18	buy track
10.	Debbie Warden 06:28	buy track
11.	Dave 03:19	buy track

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Michael Moore - alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Herb Robertson - trumpet, cornet
Fred Hersch - piano
Mark Helias - bass
Gerry Hemingway - drums

After being in Amsterdam on and off for ten years this was Moore’s first recording with a group of New York-based players. This is the result of an afternoon rehearsing, while watching the World Series, and a day recording with engineer Paul Wickliffe. The instrumentation is a traditional jazz quintet; the structures, all pieces by Moore, are attractive and engaging fantasies. All of the players are also composers and bandleaders.

"From the puckish polyphony of “Providence” to the lightly bouncing title track to the moody Ellingtonia cum Monk-hued “Debbie Warden”, this is a winning session packed with memorable melodies and some first-rate playing. Any sessions that features the distinctive cornet of Herb Robertson in ample doses are well worth hearing. The real surprise of the session is pianist Fred Hersch, who strikes just the right note. There’s even a bit of drama with his delayed entrance and crystalline solo on the aforementioned “Debbie Warden”. It’s a nice arrangement and a nice performance."

Robert Iannapollo, Cadence, May 1993

credits

released January 1, 1992

All compositions by Michael Moore

Recorded October 19, 1988,
MRC Studio, New York City

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Michael Moore Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Moore (1954, Eureka, California, USA) is a saxophone & clarinet player active primarily in Europe and North America playing creative jazz and improvised musics. He leads his own ensembles, works with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra and many others, collaborates with dancers, teaches music at the Conservatories of Amsterdam and Groningen in the Netherlands and produces recordings. ... more