Mose Allison
Real Name:
Mose John Allison, Jr.
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Mose Allison (born November 11, 1927, Tippo, Mississippi, USA - died November 15, 2016, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA) was an American jazz blues pianist and singer.
He was born outside Tippo, Mississippi on his grandfather's farm, which was known as The Island "because Tippo Bayou encircles it." He took piano lessons from age five, picked cotton, played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school, and wrote his first song at age thirteen. He went to college at the University of Mississippi for a while, then enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years. Shortly after mustering out, he enrolled at Louisiana State University, from which he was graduated in 1952 with a BA in English with a minor in Philosophy.
In 1956 he moved to New York City and launched his jazz career performing with artists such as Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Phil Woods. His debut album, "Back Country Suite", was issued on the Prestige label in 1957. He formed his own trio in 1958.
It was not until 1963 that his record label allowed him to release an album entirely of vocals. Entitled "Mose Allison Sings", it was a collection of songs that paid tribute to artists of the Mojo Triangle: Sonny Boy Williamson (2) ("Eyesight to the Blind"), Jimmy Rogers ("That's All Right") and Willie Dixon ("The Seventh Son"). However, it was an original composition in the album that brought him the most attention – "Parchman Farm". For more than two decades, "Parchman Farm" was his most requested song. He dropped it from his playlist in the 1980's because some critics felt it was politically incorrect. Allison explained to Nine-O-One Network Magazine: "I don't do the cotton sack songs much anymore. You go to the Mississippi Delta and there are no cotton sacks. It's all machines and chemicals."
His 1987 recorded album "Ever Since The World Ended" - Blue Note 48015 received the highest rating (5 starts) in Down Beat February 1988.
Prestige Records tried to market Allison as a pop star, but Columbia and later Atlantic tried to market him as a blues artist. Because he sang blues, Jet magazine thought that he was black and wanted to interview him.
Allison was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Allison's March 2010 album, "The Way of the World", "marked his return to the recording studio after a 12-year absence."
In 2012, Allison was honored with a blues marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in his hometown of Tippo. On January 14, 2013, Allison was honored as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts at a ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York. The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation's highest honor in jazz.
Allison wrote some 150 songs. His own performances have been described as "delivered in a casual conversational way with a melodic southern accented tone that has a pitch and range ideally suited to his idiosyncratic phrasing, laconic approach and ironic sense of humor."
He was born outside Tippo, Mississippi on his grandfather's farm, which was known as The Island "because Tippo Bayou encircles it." He took piano lessons from age five, picked cotton, played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school, and wrote his first song at age thirteen. He went to college at the University of Mississippi for a while, then enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years. Shortly after mustering out, he enrolled at Louisiana State University, from which he was graduated in 1952 with a BA in English with a minor in Philosophy.
In 1956 he moved to New York City and launched his jazz career performing with artists such as Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Phil Woods. His debut album, "Back Country Suite", was issued on the Prestige label in 1957. He formed his own trio in 1958.
It was not until 1963 that his record label allowed him to release an album entirely of vocals. Entitled "Mose Allison Sings", it was a collection of songs that paid tribute to artists of the Mojo Triangle: Sonny Boy Williamson (2) ("Eyesight to the Blind"), Jimmy Rogers ("That's All Right") and Willie Dixon ("The Seventh Son"). However, it was an original composition in the album that brought him the most attention – "Parchman Farm". For more than two decades, "Parchman Farm" was his most requested song. He dropped it from his playlist in the 1980's because some critics felt it was politically incorrect. Allison explained to Nine-O-One Network Magazine: "I don't do the cotton sack songs much anymore. You go to the Mississippi Delta and there are no cotton sacks. It's all machines and chemicals."
His 1987 recorded album "Ever Since The World Ended" - Blue Note 48015 received the highest rating (5 starts) in Down Beat February 1988.
Prestige Records tried to market Allison as a pop star, but Columbia and later Atlantic tried to market him as a blues artist. Because he sang blues, Jet magazine thought that he was black and wanted to interview him.
Allison was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Allison's March 2010 album, "The Way of the World", "marked his return to the recording studio after a 12-year absence."
In 2012, Allison was honored with a blues marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in his hometown of Tippo. On January 14, 2013, Allison was honored as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts at a ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York. The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship is the nation's highest honor in jazz.
Allison wrote some 150 songs. His own performances have been described as "delivered in a casual conversational way with a melodic southern accented tone that has a pitch and range ideally suited to his idiosyncratic phrasing, laconic approach and ironic sense of humor."
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Al Cohn - Zoot Sims Quintet,
Al Cohn Quintet,
Stan Getz Quartet,
The Manhattan Jazz All Stars,
The Mose Allison Trio
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Mose Allison
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Mose Allison | Back Country Suite For Piano, Bass And Drums (Album) | Prestige | RANK 5068 | Japan | 1957 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7137, PRLP 7137 |
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Mose Allison | Young Man Mose (Album) | Prestige, Prestige | 7137, PRLP 7137 | US | 1958 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PRST 7152 |
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Mose Allison | Creek Bank (Album) | Prestige | PRST 7152 | US | 1958 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PRESTIGE 7121 |
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Mose Allison | Local Color (Album) | Prestige, Prestige | PRESTIGE 7121 | Denmark | 1958 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PRLP 7189 |
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Mose Allison | Autumn Song (Album) | Prestige | PRLP 7189 | US | 1959 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CS 8240 |
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Mose Allison | Transfiguration Of Hiram Brown (Album) | Columbia | CS 8240 | US | 1960 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PR 7215, PRLP 7215 |
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Mose Allison | Ramblin' With Mose (Album) | Prestige, Prestige | PR 7215, PRLP 7215 | US | 1961 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1398 |
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Mose Allison | Swingin' Machine (Album) | Atlantic | 1398 | US | 1962 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SX 6058 |
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Mose Allison | Takes To The Hills (Album) | Epic | SX 6058 | UK | 1961 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SD 1389 |
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Mose Allison | I Don't Worry About A Thing (Album) | Atlantic | SD 1389 | US | 1962 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1424 |
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Mose Allison | The Word From Mose (Album) | Atlantic | 1424 | US | 1964 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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587031 |
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Mose Allison | Wild Man On The Loose (Album) | Atlantic | 587031 | UK | 1966 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1450 |
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Mose Allison | Mose Alive! (Album) | Atlantic | 1450 | US | 1966 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SD 1511 |
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Mose Allison | I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin' (Album) | Atlantic | SD 1511 | US | 1968 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SD 1550 |
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Mose Allison | ...Hello There, Universe (Album) | Atlantic | SD 1550 | US | 1970 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2400205, SD 1584 |
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Mose Allison | Western Man (Album) | Atlantic | 2400205, SD 1584 | UK | 1971 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SD 1627 |
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Mose Allison | Mose In Your Ear (Album) | Atlantic | SD 1627 | US | 1972 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10052 |
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Mose Allison | Seventh Son (LP, Album) | Prestige | 10052 | USA & Canada | 1973 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SD 1691 |
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Mose Allison | Your Mind Is On Vacation (Album) | Atlantic | SD 1691 | US | 1976 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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E1-60125 |
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Mose Allison | Middle Class White Boy (Album) | Elektra Musician | E1-60125 | US | 1982 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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9 60237-1, 60237 |
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Mose Allison | Lessons In Living (Album) | Elektra Musician, Elektra Musician | 9 60237-1, 60237 | US | 1983 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7480151 |
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Mose Allison | Ever Since The World Ended (Album) | Blue Note | 7480151 | France | 1987 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CDP 7 93840 2 |
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Mose Allison | My Backyard (Album) | Blue Note | CDP 7 93840 2 | US | 1990 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CDP 7243 8 27640 2 1 |
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Mose Allison | The Earth Wants You (Album) | Blue Note | CDP 7243 8 27640 2 1 | US | 1994 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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VILCD 1006-2 |
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Mose Allison | Pure Mose (Album) | Village, Ram Records (21) | VILCD 1006-2 | Europe | 1994 | Sell This Version |
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December 30, 2016It was released in May 2015. It is on the IBis Recordings label. The Magazine "Mother Jones" reviewed it and rated it as one of their top 10 releases for all of 2015. Here is the website address for the recording and much more about Mose Allison and his life.
www.moseallisonamericanlegend.com