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.
american-musician
I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
american-musician
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
american-musician wears
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
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.
years crowds
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
writing brain down-and
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
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.