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Mose Allison - The Best of Mose Allison Audio CD

A fair review of the Mose Allison "The Best of Mose Allison" 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: The Best of Mose Allison
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Don't Worry About a Thing 2: Your Mind Is on Vacation 3: It Didn't Turn Out That Way [*] 4: If You're Goin' to the City 5: Swingin' Machine 6: I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues [*] 7: Stop This World 8: I'm the Wild Man 9: New Parchman 10: Rollin' Stone 11: Don't Forget to Smile [*] 12: Seventh Son 13: I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love 14: What's With You [*] 15: That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch [*] 16: Your Molecular Structure 17: Just Like Livin' [*] 18: Everybody's Cryin' Mercy 19: Night Club [*] 20: One of These Days [*]

Not the Correct Album Versions
Gotta Love Most, problem is, your preview versin is the correct album version, but what you get is a completely different version - can you please fix this?.


great stuff
Although if you listen to the whole CD it seems a bit repetive, his lyrics still ring true after alll these years. I got this because I was going to see him. Highly recomended.


Mose' music
My husband who is a Jazz fanatic liked it too. I happened to hear one of his songs at work over the system we have, and liked it well enough to find out who it was! I was impressed by his soft voice and background music.


Great Introduction to Classic Jazz Pianist / Performer
But, if you buy this, you want it for all the original, classic tracks such as 'Stop This World', 'New Parchman', 'Seventh Son', and 'Your Molecular Structure'. 'The Best of Mose Allison' is a re-release of a vinyl album with 8 'bonus tracks' added to the CD edition of the title.

I confess this review is primarily for those who are not familiar with Mose Allison and not for those Jazz audiophiles who dote on great audio quality.

Allison, to me, seems like a true immortal of Jazz, as I saw him perform at a small Jazz club in Baltimore in 1970, and he is still performing today, (or at least within the last year) with about the same quality as I remember from 35 years ago.

Allison sings and accompanys himself on the piano and strikes me as the godfather of many more recent performer / composers such as Elton John and Randy Newman. He is one of the few pre-Rock era composers whose songs have been performed by some of the great Rock supergroups such as The Who. And, when you listen to this CD, you can wish that the modern musical ethos was a little less committed to composing all your material and just a little more about performing a few 'standards' now and again.

This is just the kind of CD you need to get a good sense of Mose Allison's work.

Recommended.


Funky and wise
For the most part, it's hard to disagree with the choices. Mose Allison recorded 10 albums for Atlantic Records, and this CD compiles the best of his work from some of those albums. "Your mind is on vacation" is one of Moses's greatest songs ever, sung to the patrons of noisy nightclubs ("If talkin' was criminal, you'd lead a life of crime") and is a no-brainer for inclusion. Likewise with "I don't worry about a thing," "New Parchman" (a remake of his "Parchman Farm" on Prestige), and "I love the life I live. " If you like Mose, you'll definitely want this CD; if you want to check out an excellent singer who sings funky and wise, give this a try. You won't be disappointed.


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