2016 claims another: Jazz and blues great Mose Allison, who died at his Hilton Head, SC home on Tuesday. He was 89. From the New York Times: Mr. Allison began his professional career as a piano player ...

Mose Allison sings for survivors. He always has. He sings easy, buoyant blues in a lackadaisical style. His voice, while rubbed at the edges from more than 50 years on the road, is still crisp with ...

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 ...

IS MOSE ALLISON a bluesman who plays jazz piano or a jazz pianist who sings the blues? A songwriter or a song stylist? "I've slipped through all the categories, for sure," the 77-year-old Allison says ...

It has been reported that American jazz pianist and songwriter Mose Allison died today at age 89. I’ve been a considerable fan of Allison’s one-of-a-kind music, but to be honest I didn’t even realize ...

Through a career spanning a half-century, Mose Allison has been known mostly for his bluesy hipster vocals and comical compositions like "Your Mind is on Vacation, But Your Mouth is Working Overtime.

When Mose Allison agreed to attend a ceremony in 2012 honoring his legacy with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in his small Delta hometown of Tippo, his son John was in disbelief. “He was ...

Dubbed the "William Faulkner of Jazz," Mose Allison is one of the wittiest songwriters around. His music has been covered by a diverse line-up of musicians including The Clash, Leon Russell, Elvis ...

The man and his style were rooted in the Mississippi Delta blues. A pianist, singer, trumpet player, and songwriter who fused jazz and blues with profound lyrics, Mose Allison was a major influence on ...

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 ...

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 ...