14 Facts About LeRoi Moore

LeRoi Holloway Moore was an American saxophonist.

LeRoi Moore was a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band.

LeRoi Moore co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay ".

LeRoi Moore began playing professionally after a brief stay in college.

LeRoi Moore helped found the Charlottesville Swing Orchestra, and the John D'earth Quintet.

The latter played at Miller's, a Charlottesville bar, every Thursday night in the late 1980s, where LeRoi Moore first met Dave Matthews in 1991.

LeRoi Moore played bass, baritone, tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones, as well as the flute, bass clarinet, the wooden penny whistle, and the oboe.

LeRoi Moore appeared on In November Sunlight, the 1996 debut album of Sokoband.

LeRoi Moore worked as a producer with artist Samantha Farrell on her second album, Luminous.

LeRoi Moore was injured on June 30,2008, in an all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.

LeRoi Moore was riding an ATV on his farm to check a fence when he hit a grass-covered ditch, causing the ATV to flip and partially land on him.

LeRoi Moore broke several ribs and punctured a lung, and was hospitalized at UVA for several days.

LeRoi Moore had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

LeRoi Moore died three months shy of his planned November 8,2008 wedding to Lisa Beane.