Mose Allison
Mose Allison
Mose John Allison, Jr.is an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth11 November 1927
CountryUnited States of America
song people care
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
night years feels
I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.
song writing news
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
years sound inspired
I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
piano improvising
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
kings player classic
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
years concerts nightclubs
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
I'm playin' the music I like.
daughter style age
I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.
night years able
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
jobs night play
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
new-york jazz
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
dad player piano
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
humorous views tunes
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.