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Gerald Asher Moore was born in London, England on October 8, 1903. He spent the years between 1922-1939 working freelance in London, playing at movie palaces and nightclubs.

Among the clubs he worked in the Twenties and Thirties were Sherry’s, the Empress Rooms, Chez Rex Evans, Bag o’ Nails, 43 Club, and Mema’s. His first live appearance on BBC radio in 1936 was heralded in The Radio Times with a listing as Britain’s King of Swing.At the end of the decade he worked with Buddy Featherstonhaugh, and inthe Forties with Adelaide Hall and with Vic Lewis.

Working in Europe late in the 1940s, he played in Germany with Max Geldray, at the Paris Jazz Fair with Carlo Krahmer, and at the Palm Beach Hotel in Cannes, France. Moore played with Harry Gold and Laurie Gold in 1954-57 and worked as a pianist on the Queen Mary and Caronia into the 1960s.

From the mid-1960s pianist Gerry Moore played in London clubs until he passed away on January 29, 1993 in Twickenham, southwest London.

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