UCR Department of Music

Wednesday@Noon via Zoom Presentation 

Chuck Moore 
Jazz musician, hip-hop artist 

Joshua Welchez, coordinator                          

Charles “Chuck Boogie” Moore, keyboardist for the Pharcyde, will discuss the roots of hip-hop as it developed from jazz and other Black American music. He will  demonstrate elements of hip-hop, such as sampling and scratching, and how they are used to create new music. 
            
January 20, 2021 
Wednesday, 12:00-12:50 P.M. PST 
Zoom
Free and open to the public

Please register in advance for this event: 
https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkduitqzwsE9QTiJDSBz0D3PWFTmUhGu5h 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Charles “Chuck Boogie” Moore started out as a rapper, beatboxer, and DJ in the mid  1980s. Inspired by Hip Hop groups of the era such as The Fat Boys, Run DMC, L.L.  Cool J., and Eric B. & Rakim, Moore began making his own beats using samples as  well as playing keyboard.  

Over the last 20 years, Moore has performed with The Pharcyde, Digable Planets, Digital Underground, DJ Quik, Syl Johnson, Fred Wesley, Bootsie Collins, Norwood Fischer and Trulio Disgracious, and Breakestra. 

Photo credit: Farah Sosa 

Information:  
performingarts@ucr.edu  music.ucr.edu
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• The Wednesday@Noon Series offers concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars. Dana Kaufman, coordinator.