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Phil Moore (February 20, 1918 – May 13, 1987) was an American jazz pianist, orchestral arranger, band leader, and recording artist. ==Biography== Phil Moore was orphaned and placed in a county hospital in Portland, Oregon. He attended the Cornish School and the University of Washington in Seattle. When Moore was 13, he played piano at speakeasies〔''Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood'' by Donald Bogle (Random House, Inc., 2009) chapter: Phil Moore: The Man Who Made Music, pg 88〕 and small venues in Portland.〔''Only The Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor''/ Jerry Butler & Earl Smith Indiana University Press, 2000. pg 87–88〕 Later, he supported Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra,〔Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography, by Luiz Carlos do Nascimento Silva (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000) pg 164〕 Bobby Short, Marshal Royal, Irving Ashby,〔Marshal Royal: Jazz Survivor by Marshall Royal and Claire Gordon, (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001) pg 83〕 Julie Wilson, Gene Sedric,〔Who's who of jazz: Storyville to Swing Street, by John Chilton pg 296〕 Les Hite, and Helen Gallagher.〔''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', Leonard Feather, page 573〕 He arranged big-band music for the Tommy Dorsey and Harry James orchestras.〔Obituary (), ''The New York Times'', May 19, 1987〕 In 1946, he played the role of a band leader in a short B-grade film, ''Stars on Parade''.〔American Film Institute Catalog by Alan Gevinson (University of California Press, 1997) pg 1341〕 About this time, his relationship with Dorothy Dandridge helped bring her success in a nightclub singing career.〔''Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy'' by Dorothy Dandridge and Earl Conrad, (Harper Collins 2000) pg 83-85〕 Moore served as vocal coach for other performers in Hollywood, including Marilyn Monroe.〔''Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography'' by Donald Bogle, (Amistad 1999)〕 Phil Moore worked at MGM and Paramount studios as an arranger. He worked on scores for over 30 films, although rarely receiving screen credit, presumably due to his race. These included ''Ziegfeld Girl, Dumbo, Three Cheers for the Boys, Panama Hattie, Presenting Lily Mars, Cabin in the Sky'', the 1944 production of ''Kismet'', and ''This Gun for Hire''.〔''Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood'' By Donald Bogle (Random House, Inc., 2009) pg 113〕 During the late 1940s, Moore toured with his group, the Phil Moore Four: Milt Hinton (bs), Marty Wilson (dms), Johnny Letman (tpt), and Jimmy Lyons (sax? gtr?). He recorded for RCA Victor (Dickens (bs), Walter Bishop (dms), Edward Leroy Gibbs (gtr), and Remo Palmieri (electric guitar) ), Musicraft (Dickens or John Levy (bs), Walter Bishop (dms), unknown (gtr), and Johnny Letman (tpt) ), and Black & White Records (Hadnott (bs), Lee Young (dms), and Irving Ashby (electric guitar) ) during this time. From the late 1950s until his death, he was active in teaching singing and stagecraft, and gained a wide reputation in the grooming and coaching of aspiring black and white singers; he started a school in New York named "For Singers Only".〔''Ebony Magazine'', November 1960, pg 120–123〕 In 1953, he recorded two bebop Christmas songs for RCA Victor: "Blink Before Christmas" and "Chinchy Old Scrooge".〔''Billboard Magazine'', Nov 28, 1953, pg 37〕 Created in the heyday of the "beat" era, these songs were thick with 1950s hipster lingo, in the style of jazz-based pre–rap songs. This recording has become a rare collector's item.〔http://www.hipchristmas.com/annual/mp3/2008/index.php〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phil Moore (jazz musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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