John Ore – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

John Ore was a jazz musician who played double bass. John Ore was born on 17 December 1933 in Philadelphia and died on 22 August 2014. The music is usually filed under jazz.

John Ore (December 17, 1933 – August 22, 2014) was an American jazz bassist. Ore attended the New School of Music in Philadelphia from 1943 to 1946, studying cello and followed this with studies on bass at Juilliard. In the 1950s he worked with Tiny Grimes, George Wallington, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Elmo Hope, Bud Powell and Freddie Redd. From 1960 to 1963 he played in Thelonious Monk's quartet, and then with the Les Double Six of Paris in 1964. Later in the 1960s he played again with Powell and also recorded with Teddy Wilson. In the 1970s he worked with Earl Hines. He was with the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1982. He never recorded an album as a leader. In a blindfold test with DownBeat in 1963, fellow bassist Ray Brown praised Ore's playing on an album with Monk's quartet, giving the bassist "four stars...for clean playing."

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Albums where John Ore is credited as a sideman

1960	The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy — Steve Lacy	double bass
1963	Criss-Cross — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1963	In Italy — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1963	No Room for Squares — Hank Mobley	double bass
1965	Monk in France — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1984	Blues Five Spot — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1989	Hackensack — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1989	Tribute To Thelonious, 64 — Earl Bud Powell	bass
1990	Live at the Village Gate — Thelonious Monk	bass
1990	Off Minor — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1991	The First European Concert ’61 — Thelonious Monk	double bass
1996	In Copenhagen — Thelonious Monk	double bass
2006	In Philadelphia 1960 — Thelonious Monk with Steve Lacy	bass
2018	Mønk — Thelonious Monk	double bass
—	Monk in Amsterdam — Thelonious Monk	double bass