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Mose Allison - Back Country Suite Audio CD

A fair review of the Mose Allison "Back Country Suite" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Mose Allison reviews here, or go back to the Mose Allison tabs.

Mose Allison Band: Mose Allison
Title: Back Country Suite
Rating:
Release Date: 1991-07-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: New Ground 2: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Train 3: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Warm Night 4: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Blues 5: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Saturday 6: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Scamper 7: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: January 8: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Promised Land 9: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Spring Song 10: Back Country Suite for Piano, Bass and Drums: Highway 49 11: Blueberry Hill 12: You Won't Let Me Go 13: I Thought About You 14: One Room Country Shack 15: In Salah

Previous Reviewer Don't Know Squat !
And if the former reviewer knew anything about root blues and slow Jazz chops, he would understand this. Mose Allison is a true Jazz Pioneer. Mose writes great comical lines, has an interestingvoice with great timing, has a sensitive piano style, reminisent of Amad Jamal, that came from being raised in the south surrounded by tons of black piano players. He has been schooled throughpout his life by many Jazz Giants and has influenced a ton musicians who have had the sensitivity and depth of understanding his root blues/jazz expression. 5 stars easily!.


Very disappointing
He's not stupid, but he doesn't exert his mind enough to make his ideas really interesting. Mose Allison is not all that great. He's not really jive, and he's not "whitey," but he isn't much else either. His chops aren't too hot, to boot. I guess his appeal is that Pete Townshend of The Who finds himself cheering Mose's songwriting and recorded his "Blue Blues. ". I don't figure. Anyway, his voice is humdrum, and his piano playing is not sharp. I dismiss him as being for freshman mentalities. I am reviewing disc one of the twofer "Mose Allison" by Mose Allison, which is the same as "Back Country Suite" (Sides 3 & 4 are his other '57 album, "Local Color". ) I docked the album one star because of obscene liner notes by Mr. Townshend.


A seminal jazz-funk album
This is the best of Allison's blues piano and composition. . and no one explored so much modernity while staying so deeply rooted. The Grove Press guide is wrong. . . "One Room Country Shack" is also a vocal - on a great blues song by Mercy Dee Walton (incorrectly named "Mercy Dee" on the original liner notes).


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