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Mose Allison Trio at Stanford Jazz Festival
Courtesy of Stanford Jazz Workshop | Posted on June 21, 2010
Where
When
Fri, July 16, 2010
8:00P.M.
At Door
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Musicians
Mose Allison
piano and vocalsAbout
Mississippi native Mose Allison’s appeal “cuts across all musical boundaries,” according to singer Bonnie Raitt. His piano style combines the brilliance of bebop with the folksy directness of country blues, and his unique voice has inspired a generation of blues-rockers. But it’s Allison’s original songs (covered by dozens of artists including Raitt, Diana Krall and Van Morrison) that reveal the hilarities and hypocrisies of modern life. The New Yorker labeled him “a National Treasure,” and his latest album ‑ 2010’s The Way of the World, his first studio recording in more than a decade ‑ earned a four-star review in DownBeat for its “subversive mix of irony and cracker-barrel attitude.”...