Michael Moore Quartet at Bimhuis

‘Less is Moore: this clarinet and alto player can do surprisingly many things with few notes’ (Vrij Nederland). Michael Moore plays the Bimhuis with his main quartet.

Alto sax and clarinet player Michael Moore is renowned all over the world for his beautiful tone and his rich musical imagination. He continuously brings in new impulses in the Amsterdam improv scene, as a writing member of ICP Orchestra or as the leader of his own band. The California-born reeds player combines the best of different worlds: the finesse of the American jazz tradition, the anarchy of New Dutch Swing and the unusual sounds of non-Western folk music....

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‘Less is Moore: this clarinet and alto player can do surprisingly many things with few notes’ (Vrij Nederland). Michael Moore plays the Bimhuis with his main quartet.

Alto sax and clarinet player Michael Moore is renowned all over the world for his beautiful tone and his rich musical imagination. He continuously brings in new impulses in the Amsterdam improv scene, as a writing member of ICP Orchestra or as the leader of his own band. The California-born reeds player combines the best of different worlds: the finesse of the American jazz tradition, the anarchy of New Dutch Swing and the unusual sounds of non-Western folk music.

The Michael Moore Quartet has a steady lineup with pianist Harmen Fraanje, double bassist Clemens van der Feen and drummer Michael Vatcher, with whom Moore has performed for over thirty years in several groups, including Available Jelly.

‘One of the finest jazz musicians working anywhere, either in the mainstream or the avant-garde’ (Chicago Reader).

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