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Richard Moore: Now What Now

Read "Now What Now" reviewed by Mark Corroto


“File under spoken word,” doesn’t quite describe the terrain we are traversing on Richard Moore’s Now What Now. The singer/songwriter teams up with percussionist Dave Storrs (The Tone Sharks, Boundary Issues, Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley) and bassist Page Hundemer (The Tone Sharks, Whirled Jazz) for three days of philosophically based improvised music.

Richard Moore is to Ken Nordine’s ‘word jazz’ as Howard Hughes was to lost highway drifters. His weltanschauung is that of a post 9-11 American Buddhist. ...

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Richard Moore: Now What Now

Read "Now What Now" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Dark Ruminations, tintinnabulations, wails and groans, squeaks and moans, washes of menacing background noise--an existential sountrack for a burgeoning century. That's Richard Moore's Now What Now on Louie Records, one of the more adventurous jazz labels around.

“It's O.K. to have that big question mark there." So says Moore, on his slow-burning new-millennium rant about a “Little Scientist Guy" (track 3) “...messing around with some fundamental stuff." (DNA)

Louie Records, based in percussionist Dave Storrs converted ...

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Richard Moore Dies at 83; Cinematographer and CO-Founder of Panavision

Richard Moore Dies at 83; Cinematographer and CO-Founder of Panavision

Source: Michael Ricci

In 1953 he teamed with Robert Gottschalk to start Panavision, which revolutionized film in the 1970s with a hand-held studio camera that could record sight and sound simultaneously.

Moore's Aug. 16 death at his home in Palm Springs was age-related, said his son, Stephen V. Moore.

His cinematography credits include “Winning" in 1969, “Myra Breckinridge" and “Sometimes a Great Notion" in 1970, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" in 1972 and “Annie" in 1982.

Moore shared a 1959 ...

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