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.
american-musician gonna happen jazz knows nobody predict
I'm pretty much self-centered in that way. I don't try to predict what's gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz.
american-musician
It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.
american-musician liked louis
Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.
oasis superhero mercy
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
dad player piano
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
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.
cds needs buying
I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.
swings personality jazz-improvisation
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
world
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
music hard-work ideas
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.
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.