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Michael Moore was born and raised in Arcata, California, USA. After absorbing music at home, playing locally and attending The College of the Redwoods and Humboldt State University he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to study with Jaki Byard, Gunther Schuller, Ran Blake, Joe Allard, Tom McKinley, George Russell and Joe Maneri at the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1977. He spent a year in New York City where he did commercial studio work, dance classes and club gigs before traveling to Europe for the first time in the summer of 1978 to play with the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe. Since 1982 he has made his home in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Available Jelly, Misha Mengelberg's Instant Composers Pool, Fernando Lameirinha's Joia, Franky Douglas' Sunchild, Guus Janssen's Septet and Maarten Altena's Quartet and Octet. Later he played and recorded with Mark Helias, Evert Hekkema, Sean Bergin, Maurice Horsthuis, Georg Graewe, Klaus Konig, Klezmokum, Simon Nabatov and others.

In 1986 he received the Dutch jazz award, the Boy Edgar Prijs. In 97 Trio Clusone was voted #1 acoustic group (Talso voted winner of the Bird Award from the Northsea Jazz Fest in 2000.

Since 91 his activities as composer and performer have been documented both on his own recording label, Ramboy, and others. His playing and writing are to be heard on more than 70 CDs.

His activities as a concert designer came to the fore in 93 with a commission for YoYo Ma's Carte Blanche at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; a three day festival (Moore & more) in Bremen, Germany; Clusone & friends concerts in Italy and Holland, and a three-day Available Jelly Festival at the Felix Meritus concert hall in Amsterdam. In 94 he organized three evenings at De Singel in Antwerpen with Lee Konitz, Misha Mengelberg, Joey Baron, Marilyn Crispell and others.
He has worked in groups led by Myra Melford, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Ig Henneman, and with Trio Clusone he has played in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. He is currently a member of the Instant Composers Pool, Jewels & Binoculars, Available Jelly, Eric Boeren Quartet, Choro Combinado (traditional & modern Brazilian music), the Benoit Delbecq Quintet, the Achim Kaufmann Quartet and leads numerous small ensembles of his own.
Michael continues to write, improvise, play and prepare new releases for Ramboy and other labels.