Search results for "Mose Allison"

Mose Allison: Parchman Farm (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

White Soul Jazz might seem oxymoronic, but in 1956 when singer/pianist Mose Allison cropped up in New York City from ...

Mose Allison: Your Mind Is on Vacation (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

In the culture-clash of jazz and psychiatry, shrinks have gotten short shrift. Mose Allison, however, plays Devil's a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Mose Allison: Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

Some folks call Mose Allison the "William Faulkner of jazz." But let's be honest, Absalom, Absalom! isn't half as muc...

Mose Allison: The Tennessee Waltz (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

So what's a super-hip, former dyed-in-the-cotton Mississippi peckerwood doing singing about a state to his north (par...

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 27, 07

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Allison, Mose (John Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Allison, Mose (John Jr.), pianist, singer, writer; b. Tippo, Miss., 11 November 1927. His father was a cotton farm...

Taylor, Mark (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Taylor, Mark (Anthony), drums; b. Hampstead, London, England, 7 November 1962. He's the son of of Edward Eugene Taylo...

Motian, Paul (Stephen Paul) posted in Encyclopedia March 04, 08

Paul Motian is an American jazz drummer who splits his time evenly and effectively between the postwar styles of bebo...

Boudreaux, Jeff (Jeffrey Lynn) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Boudreaux, Jeff (Jeffrey Lynn), jazz drummer; b. Baton Rouge, LA, 26 January 1959. His parents are Ruth and Buddy Bou...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

The United States of Jazz posted in Features and Interviews April 06, 08

by Alan Kurtz When, in the course of musical events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 08

As regular visitors to this site know, jazz.com takes a different approach to reviewing music. Our team of more t...

Bill Wimmer: Cherry Red (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music March 10, 09

Tenor saxophonist Bill Wimmer leads his group of native Nebraskans on this funky tune credited to the blues shouter a...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

Petersen, Milo (Christian Milo) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Petersen, Milo (Christian Milo), guitarist, drummer, composer, educator. b. Renton, WA, 23 June 1953. Spent his child...

Peterson, Billy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Peterson, Billy, bass player, composer, arranger; He is a member of a famous family of musicians that includes brothe...

Grimes, HenryAlonzo posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Grimes, Henry Alonzo, bassist, violinist, poet, educator, b. Philadelphia, PA, 3 November 1935.  His twin brothe...

Norris, Walter (Metcalf) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Norris, Walter (Metcalf), piano, educator; b. Little Rock, Arkansas, 27 December 1931. He lived his first eighteen ye...

Boudreaux, Buddy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Boudreaux, Buddy, alto sax, tenor sax, soprano sax and clarinet; b. Donaldsonville, LA, 1917. He grew up in Baton Rou...

Brendle, Ron (Ronnal Darrant Brendle) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brendle, Ron [Ronnal Darrant Brendle], bassist; b. Charlotte, NC, 4 July 1955. He moved to Statesville, NC a year aft...

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