Moondog - More - The Story of Moondog


A re-release on CD for an album he recorded for Prestige in the mid-fifties.

The music includes recordings made in the street and the instruments include drums that Moondog invented himself and are called "oo" and "yukh". He uses unusual time signatures - this obviously led on to the experimentation on the 1969 Moondog album that had classical-style music with syncopated rhythms.

ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS 2531 1781 2, CD January 13, 1992


  1. Queen Elizabeth Whistle and Bamboo Pipe (Duet)
  2. Conversation and Music at 51st St. & 6th Ave. (New York City)
  3. Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone
  4. Tugboat Toccata
  5. Autumn
  6. Seven Beat Suite (3 parts)
  7. Oo Solo (6/4)
  8. Rehearsal of Violetta's "Barefoot Dance"
  9. Oo Solo (2/4)
  10. Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum
  11. Obo Round
  12. Chant
  13. All Is Loneliness
  14. Sextet (Oo)
  15. Fiesta Piano Solo
  16. Moondog Monologue
  17. Up Broadway [*]
  18. Perpetual Motion [*]
  19. Gloving It [*]
  20. Improvision (piano solo) [*]
  21. Ray Malone Softshoe
  22. Two Quotations in Dialogue
  23. 5/8 in Two Shades
  24. Moondog's Theme
  25. In a Doorway
  26. Duet
  27. Trimbas in Quarters
  28. Wildwood
  29. Trimbas in Eighths
  30. Organ Rounds