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
years ideas want
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
swings personality jazz-improvisation
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
teacher years piano
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.
world
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
men world young
A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days
music hard-work ideas
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.
song writing perfect
You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.
song writing thinking
If it's worth remembering, I'll remember it. If something keeps coming back, if I keep thinking of that phrase, if I see manifestations of it at different times and different places, then I feel it's worth making a song out of.
song writing ideas
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.
lennie stills
And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.
play gigs london
I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.
mississippi-delta guy black
I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.
song years
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
years certain type
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.