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BLP sources|date=November 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Mose Allison| image = Mose Allison (crop).jpg| landscape = Yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Mose John Allison, Jr.| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1927|11|11|mf=y| birth_place = Tippo, Mississippi|Tippo , Tallahatchie County, Mississippi , United States | death_date =| death_place =| instrument = Piano , Human voice|vocals , trumpet | genre = Jazz , jazz blues , blues | years_active = 1956–present| website = http://www.moseallison.com/ moseallison.com Mose John Allison, Jr. (born November 11, 1927, Tippo, Mississippi|Tippo , Tallahatchie County , Mississippi , United States ) is an United States|American Jazz piano|jazz blues pianist and singer .
Biography
Allison played piano in grammar school and trumpet in high school . He went to college at the University of Mississippi for a while, then enlisted in the U.S. Army for two years. Fresh out of the Army, he enrolled at Louisiana State University , from which he was graduated in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts|BA in English studies|English with a Academic minor|minor in Philosophy .Dickerson, James L. (2005). Mojo Triangle :Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll (Schirmer Trade Books), pp. 110-112 It was at that point that 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 Records|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 an inspired collection of songs that paid tribute to artists of the Mojo Triangle : Sonny Boy Williamson ("Eyesight to the Blind"), Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers ("That's All Right") and Willie Dixon (" The Seventh Son (song)|The Seventh Son "). However, it was an original composition in the album that brought him the most attention, " Parchman Farm (song)|Parchman Farm ." For more than two decades, "Parchman Farm" was his most requested song. He dropped it from his playlist in the 1980s because some critics felt it was politically incorrect. Explained Allison 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.".901 Interview (May 1987), Nine-O-One Network Magazine , p. 6
His music has influenced many blues and rock music|rock artists, including Jimi Hendrix , The Rolling Stones , Tom Waits , The Yardbirds , John Mayall , J. J. Cale , The Who (who made "Young Man Blues" a staple of their live performances and used it to open their original Live at Leeds album), and Georgie Fame .Citation needed|date=November 2010 Blue Cheer also recorded a version of his song " Parchman Farm (song)|Parchman Farm " on their debut album. The Yardbirds and The Misunderstood both recorded versions of his song "I'm Not Talking".
His song "Look Here" was covered by The Clash on their album Sandinista! . Leon Russell covered Allison's song "Smashed!" on his album Stop All That Jazz . Van Morrison released an album of his songs entitled Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison , and Elvis Costello recorded "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" on his album Kojak Variety and "Your Mind Is On Vacation" on King of America (Bonus Tracks). Frank Black of the Pixies claims that the song "Allison" off the album Bossanova is about Mose Allison. http://aleceiffel.free.fr/titles.html AlecEiffel.net Pixies Titles/Names. Retrieved on 2008-04-01. WebCite|url= http://www.webcitation.org/5PwKtpADl|date =2007-06-28 He also states this at the beginning of the video for the song. His song "Monsters of the Id" was recorded by Stan Ridgway on his 2004 album Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads And Fugitive Songs .
The film The Whole Nine Yards (film)|The Whole Nine Yards begins with Mose Allison's song "I Don't Worry About A Thing" during the opening credits. Americana (music)|Americana singer-songwriter Greg Brown (folk musician)|Greg Brown wrote and performed the song "Mose Allison Played Here" on his 1997 album, Slant 6 Mind . Alternative rock band Pixies wrote the song " Allison (song)|Allison " as a tribute to Mose Allison. Eve 6 did a cover of " Allison (song)|Allison " for List_of_Pixies_tribute_albums|Where Is My Mind? A Tribute to the Pixies .
Allison was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Allison has stated over the past few years that he would not be recording any new albums, but as of March 1, 2010, his website declared that his "new album, 'The Way of the World,' arrives March 23, 2010, marking his return to the recording studio after a 12-year absence."
Discography
1957 : Back Country Suite (Prestige 7091)
1957 : Local Color (Prestige 7121)
1958 : Young Man Mose (Prestige 7137)
1958 : Creek Bank (Prestige 7152)
1958 : ''Ramblin' with Mose (Prestige 7215)
1959 : Autumn Song (Prestige 7189)
1959 : A Modern Jazz Premiere (Columbia)
1959 : Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (Columbia/Legacy)
1960 : I Love the Life I Live (Columbia/Legacy)
1961 : V-8 Ford Blues (Epic/Legacy)
1961 : Take to the Hills (Epic)
1962 : ''That's Jazz (Atlantic)
1962 : ''I Don't Worry About a Thing ( Atlantic Records|Atlantic ), ( Rhino Records|Rhino )
1962 : ''Swingin' Machine (Atlantic)
1963 : Mose Allison Sings (Prestige 7279)
1964 : The Songs of Mose Allison (Atlantic)
1964 : The Word from Mose Allison (Atlantic)
1965 : Wild Man on the Loose (Atlantic)
1965 : Mose Alive! (Atlantic)
1965 : Down Home Piano (Prestige 7423)
1965 : Mose Allison Plays for Lovers (Prestige 7446)
1968 : ''I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin (Atlantic)
1969 : Hello There, Universe (Atlantic)
1971 : Western Man (Atlantic)
1972 : Mose in Your Ear live (Atlantic)
1972(? ) : Retrospective (Columbia)
1975 : Creek Bank (1958 recordings from 2 different sessions) ( Prestige Records )
1996 : Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison ( Verve Records )
1997 : Gimcracks and Gewgaws (Blue Note)
2001 : The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, vol. 1 (Blue Note)
2002 : The Mose chronicles: live in London, vol. 2 (Blue Note)
2010 : The Way of the World ( ANTI- )
References
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External links
http://www.moseallison.com Official Site
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php? id=16513 Concert review at allaboutjazz.com (February 11, 2005)
http://www.lacitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/young_man_mose/8024/ Los Angeles Citybeat - Mose Allison Interview
http://blog.rhapsody.com/2010/12/jazz2010.html Mose Allison at Rhapsody
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