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Bob Moses was born Rakalam Bob Moses on January 28, 1948 in New York City. Studying drums during his childhood by the time he was a teenager in 1964, he was playing with Roland Kirk. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell formed the jazz-fusion group “Free Spirits” two years later and then in 1967 began working with Gary Burton, with whom he would record with in the Seventies.

During this era he released his first album as a leader titled “Bittersuite” in 1975 followed by his “Devotion” in ’79. He was a member of “Compost” with Harold Vick, Jumma Santos, Jack Gregg and Jack Dejohnette; and began working with Dave Liebman/Open Sky, Pat Metheny, Hal Galper, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, George Gruntz and Emily Remler to name a few.

Moses would continue to record from the 80s into the new millennium as a leader for Gramavision, Amulet, Navarre, Sunny Side and Jazzwerkstat record labels with many of his releases receiving critical acclaim.

Drummer Bob Moses currently performs alongside John Lockwood, Don Pate, and John Medeski with noted guitarist Tisziji Muñoz and teaches at the New England Conservatory.

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