There are plenty of post-war jazz songwriter-pianists who work overtime to be with-it. Some come off as Beat poets and cool daddy-o's while others strain to be clever phrase-turners and honky-tonk ...

Recorded last January at The Pizza Express in London, The Mose Chronicles represents the kind of performance Mose Allison offers in locations around the globe. Volume one and its to-be-released ...

What has surprised many people most about Mose Allison isn’t his acerbic wit, bone-dry singing style, piano chops, extensive discography (more than 30 albums since 1957), the number of songs he has ...

Among the many ideas that fell under the skeptical gaze of Mose Allison, one that fell closer to home than most was the subject of his own public image. “I always say, ‘any single thing you say about ...

Mose Allison was one-of-a-kind, to put it mildly. Growing up in the backwoods town of Tippo, Mississippi, he would listen to the jukebox in his father’s dry goods store, discovering music from Nat ...

At 82 and still going strong, jazz pianist Mose Allison proffers no explanation for himself and the music he plays — usually to sold-out crowds. Tonight at Blues Alley will be no different. There will ...

“Well, a young man, he ain’t got nothing in the world these days.” Or so a young man named Mose Allison sang in his backcountry half-sung, half-spoken twang in a New York studio in 1957, inaugurating ...

As the story goes, Mose Allison, now in his 80s, figured he’d finished his last studio recording career with his final Blue Note discs late in the last century. Enter Michigan’s own Joe Henry, one of ...