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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsR.I.P. Mose Allison
Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89
Mose Allison, a pianist, singer and songwriter who straddled modern jazz and Delta blues, belonging to both styles even as he became a touchstone for British Invasion rockers and folksy troubadours, died on Tuesday at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by the singer and songwriter Amy Allison, his daughter.
Mr. 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 to leading his own trio, he worked with some of the major small-group bandleaders of the late 1950s, including the saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan.
But he found greater success, and a singular niche, as a singer of his plain-spoken, pungently observant songs, beginning in the early 60s. For the next 50 years he worked almost exclusively as the leader of his own groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html
Mose Allison, a pianist, singer and songwriter who straddled modern jazz and Delta blues, belonging to both styles even as he became a touchstone for British Invasion rockers and folksy troubadours, died on Tuesday at his home in Hilton Head, S.C. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by the singer and songwriter Amy Allison, his daughter.
Mr. 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 to leading his own trio, he worked with some of the major small-group bandleaders of the late 1950s, including the saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan.
But he found greater success, and a singular niche, as a singer of his plain-spoken, pungently observant songs, beginning in the early 60s. For the next 50 years he worked almost exclusively as the leader of his own groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html
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R.I.P. Mose Allison (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Nov 2016
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. ....
longship
(40,416 posts)2. I dedicate this well known Mose song to Drumpf.
spanone
(135,789 posts)3. K&R...
dhill926
(16,314 posts)4. just saw this...
man, what a unique talent. The general suckitude of 2016 continues...
PoiBoy
(1,542 posts)5. R.I.P. Mose Allison...
...thanks for the music and good times...!!
librechik
(30,673 posts)6. saw him perform in NYC a few years back RIP Mose!