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Mose Allison was one-of-a-kind, to put it mildly. Growing up in the backwoods town of Tippo, Mississippi, he would listen to the jukebox in his father’s dry goods store, discovering music from Nat ...

If there's an artistic link between jazz and blues-rock, then Mose Allison is one of the early bridges. In the late 1950s and early '60s, the jazz pianist from Tippo, Miss., had a remarkably casual, ...

It has been reported that American jazz pianist and songwriter Mose Allison died today at age 89. I’ve been a considerable fan of Allison’s one-of-a-kind music, but to be honest I didn’t even realize ...

What has surprised many people most about Mose Allison isn’t his acerbic wit, bone-dry singing style, piano chops, extensive discography (more than 30 albums since 1957), the number of songs he has ...

IS MOSE ALLISON a bluesman who plays jazz piano or a jazz pianist who sings the blues? A songwriter or a song stylist? "I've slipped through all the categories, for sure," the 77-year-old Allison says ...

The man and his style were rooted in the Mississippi Delta blues. A pianist, singer, trumpet player, and songwriter who fused jazz and blues with profound lyrics, Mose Allison was a major influence on ...

Mose Allison began his professional career as a piano player, at a time when his style percussive and jaunty, carried along by a percolating beat suited the sound of the jazz mainstream. In addition ...