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Mose Allison
From Eric Clapton to the Rolling Stones and Van Morrison to The Who, few rock
bands enthused by the blues in the 1960s didn't take inspiration from the great
Mose Allison. Raised in the Mississippi Delta, he worked the cotton fields,
claiming "blues was in the air", learning to play piano and trumpet at school
and joining R&B bands in Memphis while still in his teens. In 1956 - after a
spell in the Army - he moved to New York and became immersed in the city's
emergent jazz scene and evolved his own style, mixing the raw blues of his youth
with jazz piano and powerful vocals. Alli...
