Mose Allison – The Word from Mose (1964/2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Mose Allison – The Word from Mose (1964/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:37 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The Word from Mose is a 1964 jazz album by the jazz pianist and singer Mose Allison. The album, described by Allmusic as “light, swinging jazz with a distinctly rural, Southern influence”, has been listed as one of the “core collection” albums for jazz fans by the Penguin Guide to Jazz.

This iconoclastic performer has sometimes been described as a country blues player, perhaps leading to images of a blind man standing on a corner playing a guitar with a bottleneck slide. In reality, Mose Allison is from a much more cosmopolitan tradition, and the country blues adage comes from attempts to describe the sound he gets playing light, swinging jazz with a distinctly rural, Southern influence. This album, from one of many he recorded for Atlantic, actually contains examples of him taking material from the real country blues heritage and reworking it into his own style, to brilliant effect. His “New Parchman Farm” is a fantastic piece, as he changes what was once a stark, depressing prison blues into something else again. Perhaps this version would be more suited to white-collar criminals such as the Watergate mob, basking in upper-class prisons complete with tennis courts. At any rate, this is a performance that only the most hardened individual would be able to listen to without a smile cracking their face. Like most of Allison’s releases, this one suffers from a handful of tracks that although not quite throwaway, surely lack the substance of the best songs here. –AllMusic Review by Eugene Chadbourne

Tracklist:
1. Mose Allison – Foolkiller (02:27)
2. Mose Allison – One Of These Days (03:04)
3. Mose Allison – Look Here (02:15)
4. Mose Allison – Days Like This (02:54)
5. Mose Allison – Your Red Wagon (02:16)
6. Mose Allison – Wild Man (01:57)
7. Mose Allison – Rollin’ Stone (03:01)
8. Mose Allison – New Parchman (03:06)
9. Mose Allison – Don’t Forget To Smile (02:49)
10. Mose Allison – I’m Not Talking (02:32)
11. Mose Allison – Lost Mind (04:11)

Personnel:
Mose Allison, piano, vocals
Roy Lundberg, drums
Ben Tucker, bass

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