How old is mose allison

Jeff Giles Published: November 16, Next: Top Classic Rock Artists. Categories: News , R. Back To Top. He worked in nightclubs throughout the Southeast and West, blending the raw blues of his childhood with modern pianistic influences of John Lewis, Thelonius Monk and Al Haig.

His vocal style was influenced by blues singers Percy Mayfield and Charles Brown. In he secured his own first recording contract with Prestige Records, recording Back Country Suite , a collection of pieces evoking the Mississippi Delta, released to unanimous critical acclaim. Mose continued working with his own trio, writing and singing his own songs. He began working all over the south-east and as far north as Denver, then went to New York to sample the frenetic modern jazz and bebop scene in He played piano with the saxists Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Gerry Mulligan , but the invigorating New York scene encouraged him to draw together all the disparate influences in his musical sensibilities: the relaxed swing piano of Nat King Cole and Erroll Garner , the various angles on bebop adopted by Thelonious Monk, John Lewis and Al Haig, and, of course, the distant childhood sounds of the blues singers.

Like Miles Davis in the same period, Allison was finding that bop could become a mechanical, formulaic exercise, and he was looking for something else. But he still saw himself as a pianist at least as much as a singer in this period, continuing to work with Getz intermittently — including a month-long engagement at the Montmartre club, Copenhagen, where the two performed as a duo.

Regularly working with the bassist Mel Graves and drummer George Marsh, Allison toured steadily, and moved to the Elektra and then Blue Note labels in the 80s. The latter company sought to rebrand him through collaborations with various guests — from the New Orleans band on My Backyard to contemporary jazz stars including the trumpeter Randy Brecker , saxophonist Joe Lovano and guitarist John Scofield on The Earth Wants You in Allison never stopped seeing himself as a jazz artist.

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