Don Moore (born 1937) is an American jazz double-bassist.^[1]

Moore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1] He became interested in the bass around the age of 18.^[1] He played and recorded with Archie Shepp, Don Cherry and others in the New York Contemporary Five in Europe in 1963.^[1] Later in the 1960s Moore worked with Jackie McLean.^[1] He recorded with Elvin Jones in 1966 and Clifford Thornton in 1967.^[1]

With Elvin Jones

• Midnight Walk (Atlantic, 1966)

With Jackie McLean

• Jacknife (Blue Note, 1966)

With The New York Art Quartet

• Call It Art (Triple Point, 2013)

With Archie Shepp

• Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (Storyville, 1963)

With Clifford Thornton

• Freedom & Unity (Third World Records, 1967)

With Rahsaan Roland Kirk

• Kirk in Copenhagen (Mercury, 1964)

Footnotes

General references

• "Don Moore". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.