John Ore

John Thomas Ore ( born December 17, 1933, Philadelphia ) is an American jazz bassist.

Life and work

John Ore studied cello at the New School of Music in Philadelphia 1943-46 and bass at the Juilliard School in New York in 1952. In 1953 he collaborated with the singer and guitarist Tiny Grimes, George Wallington and Lester Young in 1954. Below year he played with Bud Powell, Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins, 1957 again at Powell. Ore had his own trio in 1958, worked in the following years freelancing in New York and was from the spring of 1960 a member of the Quartet of Thelonious Monk. With him he visited in the spring of 1961 Europe and played the Monk Monk 's Dream - plates and Criss -Cross (Columbia Records, 1962) a. After his departure from Monk, he worked as a freelancer, toured with the Earl Hines Orchestra and worked with Sun Ra. In the following years, Ore had few opportunities to perform; in the 1990s emerged with the baritone saxophonist Cecil plates Payne.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Elmo Hope: Meditations, Hope Meets Foster ( Prestige Records, 1955)
• Freddie Redd: Piano East - Piano West ( Prestige, 1955)
• Steve Lacy: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy ( Candid Records, 1960)
• Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy (1963) and Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow ( 1965) ( both El Saturn Records)
• Thelonious Monk: Monk in France and Monk in Italy (both Riverside Records, 1961); Monk's Dream ( Columbia Records, 1962)
• Billy Bang: A Tribute to Stuff Smith ( Soul Note, 1992) with Sun Ra
• Cecil Payne: Cerupa (1993) and Scotch & Milk (1996 ) (both Delmark Records)
• Eric Alexander: Up, Over & Out ( Delmark, 1995)
• Lester Young: The Complete Studio Sessions On Verve 1946-59 ( Verve, 1999)