The man and his style were rooted in the Mississippi Delta blues. A pianist, singer, trumpet player, and songwriter who fused jazz and blues with profound lyrics, Mose Allison was a major influence on ...

There are plenty of post-war jazz songwriter-pianists who work overtime to be with-it. Some come off as Beat poets and cool daddy-o's while others strain to be clever phrase-turners and honky-tonk ...

What has surprised many people most about Mose Allison isn’t his acerbic wit, bone-dry singing style, piano chops, extensive discography (more than 30 albums since 1957), the number of songs he has ...

IS MOSE ALLISON a bluesman who plays jazz piano or a jazz pianist who sings the blues? A songwriter or a song stylist? "I've slipped through all the categories, for sure," the 77-year-old Allison says ...

The influential vocalist and pianist joins Marian McPartland for a set of originals and a few favorite tunes by Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael... Mose Allison On Piano Jazz One of the most original ...

Mose John Allison Jr. was born on Nov. 11, 1927, on a family cotton farm near Tippo, Mississippi. His mother taught elementary school, and his father, a self-taught stride piano player, owned a ...

Mose Allison was one-of-a-kind, to put it mildly. Growing up in the backwoods town of Tippo, Mississippi, he would listen to the jukebox in his father’s dry goods store, discovering music from Nat ...

NEW YORK — Mose Allison, a pianist and singer whose witty, southern-accented lyrics delivered over a backdrop of boogie-woogie blues and jazz piano won fans and influenced musicians across a wide ...

Back Country Suite For Piano Bass And Drums; Blueberry Hill; You Won't Let Me Go; I Thought About You; One Room Country Shack; In Salah; ...

Mose Allison is the ultimate hipster. When he sits down at the piano to sing “Your Mind Is On Vavaction (But Your Mouth Is Working Overtime),” he might look like a “Middle Class White Boy” (as he ...