Mose Allison
As leader

Mose Allison

Section Title: As leader
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Year recorded	Title	Label	Personnel/Notes

1957	Back Country Suite	Prestige	Trio, with Taylor LaFargue (bass), Frank Isola (drums)

1957	Local Color	Prestige	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Nick Stabulas (drums)

1958	Young Man Mose	Prestige	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Nick Stabulas (drums)

1958	Ramblin' with Mose	Prestige	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Ronnie Free (drums)

1958	Creek Bank	Prestige	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Ronnie Free (drums)

1959	Autumn Song	Prestige	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Ronnie Free (drums)

1959–1960	Transfiguration of Hiram Brown	Columbia	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Jerry Segal (drums)

1960	I Love the Life I Live	Columbia	Some tracks trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Jerry Segal (drums); some tracks trio with Henry Grimes (bass), Paul Motian (drums); some tracks trio with Bill Crow (bass), Gus Johnson (drums)

1959–61	Takes to the Hills	Epic	Some tracks trio, with Aaron Bell (bass), Osie Johnson (drums); other tracks previously released on Transfiguration of Hiram Brown or I Love the Life I Live; also issued as V-8 Ford Blues by Epic in 1966

1962	I Don't Worry About a Thing	Atlantic	Trio, with Addison Farmer (bass), Osie Johnson (drums)

1962	Swingin' Machine	Atlantic	Quintet, with Jim Reider (tenor sax), Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Addison Farmer (bass), Frankie Dunlop (drums)

1964	The Word from Mose	Atlantic	Trio, with Ben Tucker (bass), Don Lundberg (drums)

1965	Wild Man on the Loose	Atlantic	Trio, with Earl May (bass), Paul Motian (drums)

1965	Mose Alive!	Atlantic	Trio, with Stanley Gilbert (bass), Mel Lee (drums)

1968	I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin'	Atlantic	Trio, with Red Mitchell (bass), Bill Goodwin (drums)

1969–70	Hello There, Universe	Atlantic	With Jimmy Nottingham and Richard Williams (trumpet), Jerome Richardson (flute, alto sax), Joe Farrell and Joe Henderson tenor sax; separately), Pepper Adams and Seldon Powell (baritone sax; separately); Bob Cranshaw and John Williams (bass; separately), Joe Cocuzzo (drums)

1971	Western Man	Atlantic	Trio, with Chuck Rainey (electric bass), Billy Cobham (drums)

1972	Mose in Your Ear	Atlantic	Trio, with Clyde Flowers (bass), Eddie Charlton (drums); in concert

1976	Your Mind Is on Vacation	Atlantic	Some tracks trio, with Jack Hannah (bass) Jerry Granelli (drums); some tracks quartet, with Al Cohn (tenor sax) added; some tracks sextet, with Joe Farrell (tenor sax), David Sanborn (alto sax), Al Porcino (trumpet), Hannah (bass), Jerry Granelli (drums)

1978	Pure Mose	32 Jazz	Trio, with Tom Rutley (bass), Jerry Granelli (drums); in concert; released 1996

1982	Middle Class White Boy	Elektra/Musician	Sextet, with Joe Farrell (tenor sax, flute), Phil Upchurch (guitar), Putter Smith (bass), John Dentz (drums), Ron Powell (congas, percussion)

1982	Lessons in Living	Elektra/Musician	With Lou Donaldson (alto sax), Eric Gale (guitar), Jack Bruce (bass), Billy Cobham (drums); in concert

1987	Ever Since the World Ended	Blue Note	Some tracks trio, with Dennis Irwin (bass), Tom Whaley (drums); some tracks quartet, with Kenny Burrell (guitar) added; some tracks have Arthur Blythe (alto sax), Bob Malach (tenor sax, alto sax), Bennie Wallace (tenor sax) added in various combinations

1989	My Backyard	Blue Note	Quintet, with Tony Dagradi (tenor sax), Steve Masakowski (guitar), Bill Huntington (bass), John Vidacovich (drums)

1993	The Earth Wants You	Blue Note	With Ratzo Harris (bass), Ray Mantilla (congas), Paul Motian (drums), Randy Brecker (trumpet), Joe Lovano (alto sax), Bob Malach (tenor sax), Hugh McCracken (harmonica), John Scofield (guitar)

1996	Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison	Verve	With Van Morrison (vocals, harmonica), Georgie Fame (vocals, Hammond organ), Ben Sidran (vocals, piano), Alec Dankworth (bass), Ralph Salmins (drums), Guy Barker (trumpet), Pee Wee Ellis (tenor sax), Leo Green (tenor sax), Robin Aspland (Wurlitzer piano)

1997	Gimcracks and Gewgaws	Blue Note	With Mark Shim (tenor sax), Russell Malone (guitar), Ratzo Harris (bass), Paul Motian (drums)

2000	The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, Volume 1	Blue Note	Trio, with Roy Babbington (bass), Mark Taylor (drums); in concert

2000	The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, Volume 2	Blue Note	Quartet, with Jim Mullen (guitar), Roy Babbington (bass), Mark Taylor (drums); in concert

2006	American Legend – Live in California	Ibis	Trio, with Bill Douglass (bass), Pete Magadini (drums); in concert; released 2015

2009	The Way of the World	ANTI-	Most tracks with Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion), Greg Leisz (guitar, Weissenborn, mandola), David Piltch (bass), Walter Smith III (tenor sax), Anthony Wilson (guitar); one track with Amy Allison (vocals) added

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Mose Allison debut album, Back Country Suite, was issued by Prestige in 1957.

final_sentence: Mose Allison debut album, Back Country Suite, was issued by Prestige in 1957.