Noertker's Moxie

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Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three volumes of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite. He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film that screened at the Festival de Cannes 2010. He has recently finished scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.” • • • • • • • • • • Noertker studied with various people, including bassist Putter Smith, cornetist Bobby Bradford, and bassist Mandy Flowers, but has learned mostly on the bandstand, and by listening and transcribing what he hears on records. Noertker played trombone in grammar school, but when he got braces, it was too painful to continue. In 1974, while at San Gabriel High School, a friend gave Noertker his first electric bass. He began attending jam sessions and playing in heavy metal groups. He was strongly influenced by the melodic/con

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albums

Sketches of Catalonia Vol. 1: Suite for Dali

druidh lacunae

Sketches Of Catalonia, Vol.2: Suite For Miró

Sketches of Catalonia, Vol. 3: Suite For Gaudí 1

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Sketches Of Catalonia (Volume 2: Suite For Miró)

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Some Circles

Sketches of Catalonia, Vol. 1: Suite for Dali

Druidh Penumbra

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Walking on Blue Eggshells in Billville

Little Bluedevil (Blue Rider Suite, vol. 2)

Simultaneous Windows

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