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Mose Allison

[The producer told me:] "We c...

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

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Mose Allison

I went through the whole numb...

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

Mose Allison 72 quotes
Mose Allison

The jazz boom was goin' on th...

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

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Mose Allison

My main influences have alway...

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

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Mose Allison

All the classic jazz players ...

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

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Mose Allison

Traveling these days has a lo...

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

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Mose Allison

I've been able to do pretty w...

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.

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Mose Allison

Then I started listenin' a lo...

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

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Mose Allison

There's a few tunes of mine t...

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.

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Mose Allison

I've heard some tunes in rece...

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.

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Mose Allison

Pizza Express has been a real...

Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.

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Mose Allison

But I got an audience that kn...

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

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Mose Allison

I do some concerts. At the mo...

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

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Mose Allison

As far as I'm concerned, the ...

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

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Mose Allison

I just try to do as good job ...

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.

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Mose Allison

I'm playin' music for a certa...

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.

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Mose Allison

I haven't stopped and I don't...

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

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Mose Allison

I do very few standards. Hard...

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

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Mose Allison

I been getting good crowds. I...

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

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Mose Allison

I remember the first check I ...

I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.

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