Mose Allison - On Prestige (2024)

  • 10 Nov, 05:55
  • change text size:

Artist:
Title: On Prestige
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc. FP
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 1:12:31
Total Size: 429 MB
WebSite:

Tracklist:

1. Lost Mind (03:30)
2. The Seventh Son (02:37)
3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (02:46)
4. Creek Bank (04:34)
5. Eyesight To The Blind (01:40)
6. Mojo Woman (04:05)
7. Parchman Farm (03:17)
8. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (03:10)
9. Blueberry Hill (02:54)
10. Scamper (02:16)
11. Young Man's Blues (01:23)
12. In Salah (03:48)
13. Crespuscular Air (03:46)
14. I Got A Right To Cry (Remastered) (02:49)
15. You Belong To Me (Remastered) (04:21)
16. One Room Country Shack (02:59)
17. Old Devil Moon (Remastered) (05:08)
18. Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand (03:13)
19. I Hadn't Anyone Till You (02:30)
20. That's All Right (02:25)
21. Warm Night (01:47)
22. Trouble In Mind (03:13)
23. If You Live (02:29)
24. Highway 49 (01:40)

One of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, pianist and singer/songwriter Mose Allison (aka "The Sage of Tippo") suffered from a "categorization problem" throughout his career. Although his boogie woogie-cum-bebop playing style was fresh and innovative (and got better as he aged), he excelled as a composer of highly original blues and jazz tunes. His hip, poetic, funny, ironic, and sometimes tender songs have been recorded by the Who ("Young Man Blues"), Leon Russell ("I'm Smashed"), Bonnie Raitt ("Everybody's Cryin' Mercy"), and dozens more. He began recording with Prestige on 1957's dazzling Back Country Suite and 1958's Local Color. On Atlantic during the 1960s, albums such as I Don't Worry About a Thing, Wild Man on the Loose, and I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin' won wide attention from critics and college kids. Allison's diversity confused booking agents, who would often overlook him because he didn't fit into an easily definable category. Allison became a road dog, playing up to 200 shows a year in venues ranging from tiny clubs to theaters. Between 1982 and 2001, Allison recorded sporadically for Blue Note, issuing fine albums such as 1982's Middle Class White Boy, 1996's Gimcracks and Gewgaws, and 2001's two-volume The Mose Chronicles: Live in London. His final studio outing, The Way of the World, appeared in 2010 on Anti. In 2021, the U.K.'s Strawberry label released the six-disc Complete Atlantic/Elektra Albums 1962-1983.