Mose John Allison Jr. (11 thang 11 nam 1927 – 15 thang 11 nam 2016) la mot ca si, nghe si duong cam va nhac si nguoi My. Ong noi tieng nho su pha tron đoc đao giua nhac blues va jazz đuong đai, trong ca ca hat lan choi duong cam. Sau khi chuyen toi New York nam 1956, ong chu yeu lam viec trong boi canh nhac jazz cung nhieu nhac si nhu Stan Getz, Al Cohn va Zoot Sims.
Ong đuoc mieu ta la "mot trong nhung nhac si blues xuat sac nhat the ky 20." Nhung bai hat cua ong phu thuoc rat nhieu vao ky nang goi nen tam trang, voi đac tinh "ky quac" va net hai huoc mia mai nhe nhang. Sang tac cua ong gay anh huong toi the loai R&B, khien nhieu nguoi ham mo thu am lai nhung bai hat cua minh, trong so đo co Pete Townshend thu "A Young Man's Blues" cho album Live At Leeds (1970) cua nhom The Who. John Mayall la mot trong nhieu nguoi the hien lai ca khuc "Parchman Farm" va Georgie Fame su dung nhieu ca khuc cua Allison. Nhung phan trinh dien khac bao gom Leon Russell ("I'm Smashed") va Bonnie Raitt ("Everybody's Crying' Mercy"). Nhung nam 1990, nhung ban thu am cua ong tro nen nhat quan hon. Van Morrison va Ben Sidran hop tac voi ong trong album Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison. The Pixies viet bai hat "Allison" đe tri an toi ong.
Allison gay nhieu anh huong toi nhung nhac si khac, nhu Tom Waits, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones va Pete Townshend. Ong đuoc bo nhiem vao Đai lo Danh vong am nhac Long Island nam 2006.


Thoi tho au Allison sinh tai Tippo, Mississippi, trong nong trai cua ong minh. Ong hoc duong cam nam len 5, choi duong cam trong truong ngu phap va trumpet o truong trung hoc, roi viet bai hat đau tien nam 13 tuoi.
Allison co mot khoang thoi gian theo hoc truong Đai hoc Mississippi, sau đo đi nghia vu theo quan đoi Hoa Ky trong hai nam. Khong lau sau khi xuat ngu, ong đen truong Đai hoc bang Louisiana, noi ong tot nghiep nam 1952 voi Bang cu nhan nghe thuat nganh Ngu van.


Su nghiep Nam 1956, Allison chuyen toi thanh pho New York va mo ra su nghiep nhac jazz, trinh dien voi nhieu nghe si nhu Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims va Phil Woods. Album đau tay Back Country Suite đuoc hang Prestige xuat ban nam 1957. Ong trinh dien voi tay bass Addison Farmer va tay trong Nick Stabulas nam 1958.
Toi nam 1963, hang thu am moi cho phep ong phat hanh album đon ca. Mang tua đe Mose Allison Sings, đay la tap hop nhung bai hat tu cac album Prestige truoc đay, tri an nhieu nghe si cua Mojo Triangle: Sonny Boy Williamson ("Eyesight to the Blind"), Jimmy Rogers ("That's All Right") va Willie Dixon ("The Seventh Son"). Du vay, sang tac "Parchman Farm" cung tao nen su chu y cua khan gia; trong hon 2 thap nien, "Parchman Farm" la bai hat đuoc yeu cau nhieu nhat cua ong. Ong loai bo bai hat nay khoi danh sach bai hat nhung nam 1980, vi mot vai nha phe binh cam thay bai hat sai lech ve chinh tri

Prestige co quang ba Allison nhu mot ngoi sao nhac pop, nhung Columbia va Atlantic lai đua ong hinh anh cua mot nghe si nhac blues. Vi ong hat blues, tap chi Jet tuong ong la nhac si da mau va muon phong van ong. Album The Way of the World phat hanh vao thang 3 nam 2010, la album đau tien cua ong sau 12 nam vang bong trong phong thu.
Allison sang tac khoang 150 bai hat. Nam 2012, Allison đuoc vinh danh o Mississippi Blues Trail tai que nha Tippo. Vao ngay 14 thang 1 nam 2013, ong đuoc trao Jazz Master tai National Endowment for the Arts, danh hieu cao quy nhat cua dong nhac jazz tai Hoa Ky, trong mot buoi le tai Lincoln Center, New York.


Đoi tu va qua đoi Mose ket hon voi Audre vao nam 1949. Ho song o Long Island va nuoi duong 4 nguoi con, bao gom đua con gai Amy, la mot nhac si. Allison mat 4 ngay sau sinh nhat lan thu 89 vao ngay 15 thang 11 nam 2016, tai tu gia o Hilton Head, South Carolina.


Danh sach đia nhac 1957: Back Country Suite (Prestige)
1957: Local Color (Prestige)
1958: Young Man Mose (Prestige)
1958: Ramblin' with Mose (Prestige)
1958: Creek Bank (Prestige)
1959: Autumn Song (Prestige)
1959: Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (Columbia)
1960: I Love the Life I Live (Columbia)
1961: Takes to the Hills (Epic) (tai phat hanh nam 1966 duoi ten V-8 Ford Blues)
1962: I Don't Worry About a Thing (Atlantic)
1962: Swingin' Machine (Atlantic)
1963: Mose Allison Sings (Prestige)
1964: The Word from Mose (Atlantic)
1965: Wild Man on the Loose (Atlantic)
1965: Mose Alive! (Atlantic)
1968: I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin' (Atlantic)
1969: Hello There, Universe (Atlantic)
1971: Western Man (Atlantic)
1972: Mose in Your Ear (Atlantic)
1976: Your Mind Is on Vacation (Atlantic)
1978: Pure Mose (32 Jazz), live recordings
1982: Middle Class White Boy (Discovery)
1982: Lessons in Living [live] (Elektra)
1987: Ever Since the World Ended (Blue Note)
1989: My Backyard (Blue Note)
1993: The Earth Wants You [live] (Blue Note)
1996: Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison (Verve), voi Van Morrison, Georgie Fame va Ben Sidran
1997: Gimcracks and Gewgaws (Blue Note)
2001: The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, vol. 1 (Blue Note)
2002: The Mose Chronicles: Live in London, vol. 2 (Blue Note)
2010: The Way of the World (ANTI-)
2015: "Mose Allison American Legend Live in California" (IBis Recordings)


= Tong hop =
1963: Mose Allison Sings (Prestige 7279)
1965: Down Home Piano (Prestige 7423)
1965: Mose Allison Plays for Lovers (Prestige 7446)
1970: The Best of Mose Allison (Atlantic; tai phat hanh CD voi 7 bai hat bo sung nam 1988)
1972(?): Retrospective (Columbia)
1979: Ol' Devil Mose [compilation] (Prestige 24089)
1994: Allison Wonderland Anthology (Rhino)


= Hop tac =
Voi Al Cohn

The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer (Coral, 1956), voi Bob Brookmeyer
Al and Zoot (Coral, 1957), the Al Cohn Quintet, voi Zoot Sims
Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (United Artists, 1959), voi Zoot Sims va Phil Woods
Voi Stan Getz

The Soft Swing (Verve, 1957)


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