Mose Allison – Autumn Song
Original Jazz Classics OJCCD 894-2, Prestige P-7189
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1996
00:00 1 Promenade(Mose Allison)
04:10 2 Eyesight To The Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson )
05:54 3 It's Crazy (Fields, Roger)
09:35 4 That's All Right (Jimmy Rogers)
12:04 5 Devil In The Cane Field (Allison)
16:09 6 Strange (Latouche, Fisher)
19:19 7 Autumn Song (Allison)
23:02 8 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Russell, Ellington)
26:15 9 Spires (Allison)
29:20 10 Groovin' High (Dizzy Gillespie)
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Bass – Addison Farmer
Drums – Ronnie Free
Piano – Mose Allison
Vocals – Mose Allison (tracks: 2, 4, 8)
Recorded in Hackensack, NJ; February 13, 1959
AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow:
Mose Allison recorded six albums as a leader for Prestige between 1957 and 1959, an era when he was better known as a jazz pianist than a folk/country blues vocalist and masterful lyricist.
On his final Prestige date, Allison (in a trio with bassist Addison Farmer and drummer Ronnie Free) performs seven instrumentals (including "It's Crazy," "Autumn Song," and "Groovin' High")
but it's the three vocals ("Eyesight to the Blind," "That's All Right," and
Duke Ellington's "Do Nothin' 'til You Hear from Me") that are most memorable. One realizes why Allison was soon emphasizing his vocals; he was a much more distinctive singer than pianist, although his piano playing was actually pretty inventive.
This is an excellent all-around set.
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