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 ...

Allison was summoned to Hollywood last year by director Frank Oz, a Mose fan, for a scene in the upcoming movie "The Score," that stars Robert DeNiro and features Marlon Brando. (Set for a July ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Among the many ideas that fell under the skeptical gaze of Mose Allison, one that fell closer to home than most was the subject of his own public image. “I always say, ‘any single thing you say about ...

2016 claims another: Jazz and blues great Mose Allison, who died at his Hilton Head, SC home on Tuesday. He was 89. From the New York Times: Mr. Allison began his professional career as a piano player ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Well, a young man, he ain’t got nothing in the world these days.” Or so a young man named Mose Allison sang in his backcountry half-sung, half-spoken twang in a New York studio in 1957, inaugurating ...