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I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
Mose Allison
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Mose Allison
Age: 89 †
Born: 1927
Born: November 11
Died: 2016
Died: November 15
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Pianist
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Tippo
Mississippi
Mose John Allison
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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.
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I'm not inspired by songwriting at all that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
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[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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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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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
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I just have a lot off different influences.
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
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I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.
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I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line those lines would be suited to. As soon as I find the form I can finish the song in my head.
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I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
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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.
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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
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I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
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You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.
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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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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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I don't sit down to write a song they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
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