Mose Allison
Mose Allison
Mose John Allison, Jr.is an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth11 November 1927
CountryUnited States of America
american-musician terrible
There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
oasis superhero mercy
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
humorous views tunes
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
mistake men firsts
I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.
night years able
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
kings player classic
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
swings numbers people
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
army player engineering
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.
couple people tunes
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
mississippi-delta guy black
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
daughter style age
I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.
night years feels
I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.