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Mose Allison: Back in the (Studio) Saddle
by R.J. DeLuke
Mose Allison, the singer/songwriter blues/jazz man from the Mississippi Delta, has reached the age of 82. He's packed into that lifetime some 60 years in the music business and on the road. He's still playing more than 100 club and concert dates a year, from New York to California, across the pond in England and elsewhere.
Live Review: Mose Allison at Largo's
Mose Allison fans couldnt have asked for a more ideal environment for the second performance of his two-night stand at Largo at the Coronet on Sunday night. The first winter storm of 2010 snarled traffic and might have taken a bite out of the evenings attendance, but there were few talents better suited to a rainy ...
A Modest Proposal: Joe Henry's Letter-Writing Campaign Results in Mose Allison's First Record in 12 years
by Jeff Vrabel
Joe Henry's strategy for coaxing Mose Allison back to the studio for the first time in twelve years was simple enough: All he had to do was quietly and thoughtfully stalk the jazz icon for a year. “He kept at it, and kept calling me and emailing and so forth," the 82-year-old Allison said of the ...
Mose Allison at Largo at the Coronet
Regarded as “the William Faulkner of jazz," pianist and songwriter Mose Allison counts Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and Ray Davies among his legion of fans. Possessed with a honeyed voice and a humorist's eye for detail, Allison is midway through a six-city tour previewing the spring release of his first album in 12 years, The Way ...
Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection
by Larry Taylor
Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection Hardcover; 128 pages ASIN: B002NACXY6 Concord Editions 2009 Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection has been published in honor of the seminal jazz label's 60th anniversary. The handsome coffee table-sized book would make the perfect gift for many jazz fans--both ...
Mose Allison at Nighttown
by Matt Marshall
Nighttown Cleveland Heights, Ohio August 29, 2009 Mose Allison sings for survivors. He always has. He sings easy, buoyant blues in a lackadaisical style. His voice, while rubbed at the edges from more than 50 years on the road, is still crisp with vaudevillian nonchalance. He accompanies himself with confident, insistent ...
2009 Savannah Jazz Festival: September 20 - 27
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday outdoors in beautiful Forsyth Park and various venues in Savannah. The 2009 “ 28th ” Savannah Jazz Festival, celebrating jazz as a living art form--built on a constantly evolving tradition will offer all types of jazz, from Dixieland, traditional swing, straight-ahead and bop to melodic standards, and funky down-home “gutbucket” blues. ...
Jazzfest Regina 2009 Features Mose Allison Trio, Hugh Fraser and Veji
SASKATCHEWAN CANADA - At a press conference today at the Regina Inn, the Regina Jazz Society announced that JazzFest Regina 2009 will feature two legendary artists and their groups as the first two headliner acts for its inaugural festival. Jazz and blues pianist and singer, Mose Allison, who has played and recorded with jazz greats Stan ...
Mose Allison Plays the Jazz Bakery
MOSE ALLISON That's right -- that incomparable master of irreverence, sly blues pianist par excellence, idiosyncratic songwriter ("I'm Not Talking"; “Your Mind Is On Vacation") and true American original Mose Allison is back! And that means just one thing -- you better get your seats early, because when the one and only Mose comes ...
Mose Allison Coming to the Jazz Bakery
That's right -- that incomparable master of irreverence, sly blues pianist par excellence, idiosyncratic songwriter ("I'm Not Talking"; “Your Mind Is On Vacation") and true American original Mose Allison is back! And that means just one thing -- you better get your seats early, because when the one and only Mose comes to town, ...
