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Joseph Patrick Moore is an Atlanta-based session and performance bass guitar and double bass player.

Moore was born in Knoxville, and showed musical talent early, at age seven on alto saxophone, switching to drums in High School before settling for bass guitar in his second year. Moore first studied music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville before moving to the University of Memphis in 1991 and becoming a regular Beale Street performer

In Memphis, Moore was awarded the Milt Hinton scholarship in 1993, by a panel of judges including Hinton himself. Moore also recorded his first solo album, Never Never Land in 1996, and was nominated for a National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences "Premiere Player" award (the local equivalent of NARAS' more famous Grammy Award) in the "Best Bassist" category by his then-local Memphis chapter of NARAS in 1997. The same year he moved to Atlanta.

In 2004, by then a veteran of Col. Bruce Hampton's Fiji Mariners (where he played alongside Jimmy Herring) and Blueground Undergrass, Moore released another solo album "Joseph Patrick Moore's Drum & Bass Society Volume I",.

Discography

 * All titles from Tower Records 


 * Never Never Land (1996, Moore Music Prod.)
 * Soul Cloud (2000, Moore Music Prod.)
 * Alone Together (2002, Moore Music Prod.)
 * Live in '05 (2005, Blue Canoe Records)
 * Decade 1996-2005 (2006, Blue Canoe Records)