Verve - The Bottomless Pit Of "Who Knew?"

[mikeweil]

Could that be the Phil Moore who played piano in Gerald Wilson`s Orchestra in the 1960*s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Moore_(jazz_musician)

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

Could that be the Phil Moore who played piano in Gerald Wilson`s Orchestra in the 1960*s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Moore_(jazz_musician)

The Wiki link does not mention Gerald Wilson, does it?

[JSngry]

https://www.historylink.org/File/20350

Along the way, the once-divorced Moore remarried and he and his new wife Jeanne George had a daughter, Joanna Moore, and eventually a couple of grandchildren. Meanwhile, Moore's namesake son carved out his own music career -- as Phil Moore Jr., playing piano with the likes of the Gerald Wilson Orchestra in 1965 and recording his own solo LP for Atlantic Records in 1969.

 

This seems to be the same guy as Phil Moore III...go figure that one?

 

[mikeweil]

Thanks Jim - I saw no reason to doubt there was some connection, given the Californian context, and as the younger Moore was listed as Phil Moore III somewhere in the Wilson context.

Edited April 15, 2019 by mikeweil

[JSngry]

Ok, who is THIS?

[Teasing the Korean]

By the way, some of the tracks from the Phil Moore album have appeared on the Lux and Ivy exotica compilations on Righteous.

[Ken Dryden]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Ok, who is THIS?

Spike Jose’s wife. She sang ballads to give a break from the band’s antics. One time in the middle of her feature, Spike sprayed her in the middle of her back with a seltzer bottle and she chased him into the audience. The crowd roared, thinking it was part of the script, though it wasn’t.

[JSngry]

Spike Jones must have had a connection at Verve. Any idea who it was?

[Ken Dryden]

8 hours ago, JSngry said:

Spike Jones must have had a connection at Verve. Any idea who it was?

No idea, though I may have to get out the bio of him that I bought in the 1970s or 1980s. As far as I can tell, Helen Grayco could still be alive, thought she would be up there in years. I am not sure what year she was born

He did that Christmas LP for Verve.