
Dan Moore became fascinated with music recording in 1972 when his neighbor and best friend was gifted a 4-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. Dan was learning the drums in the junior high band and Mark (who was a couple of years older) played 12-string guitar and sang. Together they created art-rock, jazz, and pop influenced recordings in Mark’s living room. By high school, Dan was composing and arranging music for his friends to record in elaborate sessions in the high school band hall. This time the recording equipment was an 8-track reel-to-reel recorder owned and operated by a local band director.
Dan’s interest in composing and recording music continued to grow throughout his college years. After graduation, he began to collect musical instruments and his own recording equipment, progressing from a Fostex 4-track cassette recorder to a Roland VS-880 to a Pro Tools HDX system on which he continues to hone his skills. As a professional musician and university professor, Dan gained valuable experience as a performer, composer, and producer of music and video, working in recording studios in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Montana, Memphis, Nashville, and Iowa. Today he works primarily in his studio within the Thomas L. Davis Percussion Suite at the University of Iowa—a unique custom designed facility that seamlessly blends teaching, rehearsing, and recording into one space (pictured above).
He has over forty professional recordings to his credit as a performer, leader, co-leader, producer, or editor. Since 1990, Dan has averaged one project per year on labels such as Innova, Cricket City Music and Media, Albany, Crystal, Band Camp, Sxisma (Greece), NBB Records (Italy), Marquis Classics, Sea Breeze, and Wild Wind Records.
Use the sort and search functions to explore Dan’s recorded work in the list below.
Key:
dr: drums
keys: electronic keyboards
mar: marimba
MIDI mar: MIDI marimba (Dan’s creation of an acoustic marimba with MIDI capabilities)
pans: steel pans (all)
perc: percussion (all)
prog: programming, looping, sampling
vib: vibraphone
v: vocals
Dan Moore Discography
Date | Album | Artist | Dan's Role | Notes | Label/Format | Links |
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2020 | Southern Gothic | Peter Naughton | producer | Peter Naughton debut recording | Band Camp CD streaming | https://peternaughton.bandcamp.com/album/southern-gothic |
2020 | Songs and Prayers of the Abyss | Katerina Stamatelos | conductor | Large work for mezzo-soprano, brass quintet, and nine percussion Special edition release of the 1999 premiere performance | Sxisma CD | https://www.katerinastamatelos.com/ |
2020 | Four Love Songs | Katerina Stamatelos | performer | Dan Moore, perc 1 track, Nanarisma | Sxisma CD | https://www.katerinastamatelos.com/ |
2019 | Émissions Transparents: Paul Elwood | Paul Elwood | conductor editor | Iowa Percussion with soprano Aly Olsen 1 track, Plutonic Winds | Innova 005 CD streaming | https://www.innova.mu/albums/paul-elwood/emissions-transparents |
2018 | Iowa Steel Band: Jungle Music with Andy Narell | Iowa Steel Band | performer conductor producer editor | Iowa Steel Band featuring Andy Narell Mixed by Andy Narell | Cricket City CC6059 CD streaming | https://open.spotify.com/album/1yYLE3waU7TS1A4HpFrxQw |
2017 | Transience: The Music of Taylor Ambrosio Wood | Christine Augspurger | producer | Christine Augspurger debut recording | Band Camp streaming | https://christineaugspurger.bandcamp.com/album/transience |
2017 | Hot Town in the Old Tune Tonight | Dan Moore | performer composer editor | Row-Loff Publications Demonstration | Cricket City streaming | https://www.rowloff.com/search/description.html?item=18CS17 |
2016 | A Tribute to Teppo | Volkan Orhon | producer editor | 1 track, Poetic Caprice | NBB Records (Italy) CD | https://nbbrecords.com/product/a-tribute-to-teppo/ |
2014 | Good Christmas Vibes | Dan Moore | performer composer producer editor | Sheet music also available from Row-Loff Publications | Cricket City CC5655 CD | https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAGBfP1t4cwSltjaaF394C9AhqVZr08to |
2014 | Nutville | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger editor | Fernando Hashimoto, perc, track 3 Johnny Rabb, dr, track 5 | Cricket City CC5555 CD | |
2013 | Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is? | Misfit Toys | performer arranger producer editor | Dan Moore, mar, vib, keys, v, perc Matthew Wilson, dr, perc, v Paul Elwood, banjo, v Robert Paredes, clarinet, v | Innova 864 CD streaming | https://www.innova.mu/albums/misfit-toys/does-anybody-really-know-what-time-it |
2012 | Queen of the Bands | Iowa Percussion | performer conductor arranger producer editor | Cricket City CC5453 CD cassette Out of Print | ||
2011 | Trinity Requiem | Robert Moran | sampled artist | Sample from Cabinet of Curiosities 1 track, Requiem for a Requiem (Remix) | Innova 244 CD streaming | https://www.innova.mu/albums/robert-moran/trinity-requiem |
2011 | Cabinet of Curiosities: The Graphic Percussion Scores of Robert Moran | Dan Moore | performer arranger producer editor | Meghan Aube, perc Christine Augspurger, perc Lucas Bernier, perc members of Iowa Percussion | Innova 792 CD streaming | https://open.spotify.com/album/0KaSce7Rw6hK5t7XPqcRYt?si=lUcSGk4dSqO6uSTihypHdA |
2009 | What Goes Around, Comes Around | Diplomats of Solid Sound | performer | Dan Moore, bells, vib 1 track, What Goes Around Comes Around | Pravda CD streaming | |
2009 | Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra | Ksenia Nosikova | performer | Dan Moore, timpani | Profil PH09028 CD | |
2008 | Mantra: Music of Robert Moran | Dan Moore | conductor editor | 3 tracks, Obrigado Stirling: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs Kboco | Innova 714 CD streaming | https://open.spotify.com/album/0BM17cWUOhA39Z1ajiLSsk?si=SkCVFJ20R_mPuEzkt6BzgA |
2007 | Noise Brigade | Iowa Steel Band | performer conductor producer editor | Cricket City CC4848 CD Out of Print | ||
2007 | Monsterology | Lawrence Fritts | performer | Dan Moore, perc 1 track, Monsterology | Albany Troy 900 CD | |
2007 | D. Martin Jenni, Tribute | Iowa Center for New Music | performer | Dan Moore, timpani solo 1 Track, Tympanorum Musices | CD Out of Print | |
2006 | Rhapsody Judaica | The Timofeyev Ensemble | performer | Dan Moore, hand perc | Marquis Classics Marquis 81349 CD | |
2005 | Now, Here, This | Dan Moore | performer composer producer editor | Dan Moore, MIDI mar, vib, bells, malletKAT, drumKAT, Zendrum, Yamaha cocktail kit, & misc perc | Cricket City CC4645 CD | |
2003 | Take Me to Your Leader: Percussion Music of Thomas L. Davis | Iowa Percussion | performer conductor arranger producer editor | Cricket City CC4444 CD | ||
2003 | Music at Iowa | Iowa Pecussion Iowa Steel Band | performer conductor | 2 tracks, Ionisation (Iowa Percussion) Ask (Iowa Steel Band) | CD Out of Print | |
2003 | Bassoon Images From The Americas | Benjamin Coelho | performer | Dan Moore, perc 1 track, Responsorio in Memorian Rodolfo Halffter | Albany Troy 608 CD | |
2003 | Mafficked Simulacrum | oftEnsemble | performer | Dan Moore, mar, djembe, perc 2 tracks | MoMu 7701 CD Out of Print | |
2002 | Everywhere Calypso | Iowa Steel Band | performer conductor arranger producer editor | The title was my little joke that if Calypso had made it to Iowa, it had indeed made it Everywhere! | Cricket City CC4443 CD Out of Print | |
2001 | Little World of Rhythm | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger editor | Mat Britain, pans, perc Dan Moore, mar, midi mar, keys, prog Matthew Wilson, dr Matt Grundstad, v (1 track) | Cricket City CC4342 CD | |
1999 | Jungle Fever: Dan Moore plays the music of Dick Schory | Dan Moore & Iowa Percussion | performer conductor arranger co-producer | Produced by Lowell Cross and Dan Moore, recorded using vintage U-47 Telefunken microphones and Neve recording console | Cricket City CC3940 CD | |
1997 | Tournament | UI Symphony Band | performer | Dan Moore, xylophone soloist 1 track, Turquoise Daydreams | CR 97008-3 CD | |
1996 | Kentucky Kaleidoscope: Ensembles of the University of Kentucky School of Music | UK Steel Band | performer | Dan Moore, marimba soloist 1 track, Bahama Mama | CD Out of Print | |
1996 | Sheddin’: Linear and Vertical Exercises for the Contemporary Improviser, Volumes I-III | Miles Osland | performer | Dan Moore, dr. | Print Publication with CD Out of Print | |
1996 | We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Rhythm Section | University of Kentucky Mega-Sax Quartet | performer arranger | Dan Moore, Latin Perc First-round Grammy nomination 1 track, Monk Tuno | Sea Breeze Vista SBV-451 CD | |
1994 | My Old Kentucky Home | Miles Osland Little Big Band | performer | Dan Moore, Brazilian perc 1 track, A few Good Men | Sea Breeze Jazz CDSB-3015 CD | |
1993 | Cricket City | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger | Mat Britain, pans, perc Dan Moore, mar, midi mar, perc | Cricket City CC3532 CD cassette Out of Print | |
1992 | The Vision | Walkin' Jim Stoltz | performer | Dan Moore, dr, perc Mat Britain, pans, 1 track | Wild Wind WW003 CD cassette streaming | https://walkinjim.com/ |
1990 | Kid for the Wild | Walkin' Jim Stoltz | performer | Walkin’ Jim stoltz (1953-2010) Widely known throughout the U.S. for his unique combination of long-distance hiking, original songwriting, and photography. He was an adventurer, artist, poet, photographer, author, and environmental activist. | Wild Wind WW002 CD cassette streaming | https://walkinjim.com/ |
1989 | The Britain/Moore Duo EP | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger | Four-song EP record When people ask how long the BMD has been together, I tell them that we once released a vinyl record. | Self Published Extended Play (EP) album Out of Print | |
1988 | The Britain Moore Duo: Live | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger | The first professionally produced live concert recording of the Britain Moore Duo recorded February 17, 1988 at Reynolds Recital Hall, Montana State University | Self Published cassette Out of Print | |
1986 | The Mat Britain/Dan Moore duo | Britain Moore Duo | performer co-producer composer arranger | The first studio produced demonstration recording of the Britain Moore Duo. | Self Published cassette Out of Print (now on YouTube) | https://youtu.be/Jlxtb1rsdKY |
1985 | Joint Venture | Steel Away | performer producer composer arranger | The first studio recording featuring the Britain Moore Duo performing their first duo composition Clock on the Wall | Self Published cassette Out of Print | |
Date | Album | Artist | Dan's Role | Notes | Label/Format | Links |