The Best of Mose Allison
Appearance
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The Best of Mose Allison | ||||
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Compilation album by | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | 1962–1972 | |||
Genre | Jazz, blues | |||
Length | 53:39 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Mose Allison chronology | ||||
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The Best of Mose Allison is a compilation album by Mose Allison. It includes some of the jazz pianist and singer's best-known recordings for Atlantic Records. The album was originally released in 1970 as an LP record with 12 songs. The album was re-issued on a CD in 1988 with an additional eight songs and new sequencing.
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic |
An AllMusic reviewer gave it four and a half out of five stars and called it "a pretty good capsule introduction to one of American music's most idiosyncratic individualists".[1] However, he noted "For a more comprehensive – and well-packaged – overview of most of his career, turn to the double-CD box Allison Wonderland on Rhino/Atlantic."[1]
Track listing
[edit]All songs Written by Mose Allison except as noted. Original LP
- Side one
- "Your Mind Is on Vacation" – 2:35
- "Swingin' Machine" – 2:31
- "Stop This World" – 3:24
- "Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon) – 3:36
- "New Parchman" – 3:04
- "Rollin' Stone" (McKinley Morganfield) – 2:58
- Side two
- "I'm the Wild Man" (Stanley Willis, Don Barksdale) – 1:58
- "If You're Goin' to the City" – 3:49
- "I Don't Worry About a Thing" – 2:17
- "Your Molecular Structure" – 2:05
- "Everybody Cryin' Mercy" – 2:39
- "I Love the Life I Live" (Willie Dixon) – 2:26
1988 CD re-issue
- "I Don't Worry About a Thing" – 2:41
- "Your Mind Is on Vacation" – 2:35
- "It Didn't Turn Out That Way" – 2:41 (bonus track)
- "If You're Goin' to the City" – 3:49
- "Swingin' Machine" – 2:31
- "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Don George) – 3:56 (bonus track)
- "Stop This World" – 3:24
- "I'm the Wild Man" (Stanley Willis, Don Barksdale) – 1:58
- "New Parchman" – 3:04
- "Rollin' Stone" (McKinley Morganfield) – 2:58
- "Don't Forget to Smile" – 2:48 (bonus track)
- "Seventh Son" (Willie Dixon) – 2:26
- "I Love the Life I Live" (Willie Dixon) – 2:21
- "What's With You" – 2:55 (bonus track)
- "That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch" (Buddy Johnson) – 2:10 (bonus track)
- "Your Molecular Structure" – 2:05
- "Just Like Livin'" – 1:44 (bonus track)
- "Everybody Cryin' Mercy" – 2:39
- "Night Club" – 2:36 (bonus track)
- "One of These Days" – 4:29 (bonus track)
Personnel
[edit]- Mose Allison – piano, vocals, producer (tracks 16–18)
- Addison Farmer – double bass (1–7)
- Osie Johnson – drums (1–3)
- Jimmy Knepper – trombone (4–7)
- Jimmy Reider – tenor sax (4–7)
- Frankie Dunlop – drums (4–7)
- Ben Tucker – bass (8–11)
- Ron Lundberg – drums (8–11)
- Stan Gilbert – bass (12–13)
- Mel Lee – drums (12–13)
- Earl May – bass (14–15)
- Paul Motian – drums (14–15)
- Red Mitchell – bass (16–18)
- Bill Goodwin – drums (16–18)
- Chuck Rainey – bass guitar (19)
- Billy Cobham – drums (19)
- Al Porcino – trumpet (20)
- David Sanborn – alto sax (20)
- Joe Farrell – tenor sax (20)
- Jack Hannah – bass (20)
- Jerry Granelli – drums (20)
- Nesuhi Ertegün – producer (1–15)
- Arif Mardin – producer (14–15)
- Joel Dorn – producer (19)
- Ilhan Mimaroglu – producer (20)
- Tom Dowd – engineer (1–7)
- Phil Iehle – engineer (1–3, 8–11, 14–15)
- Joe Atkinson – engineer (4–7)
- Wally Heider – engineer (12–13)
- Dave Weichman – engineer (16–18)
- Lewis Hahn – engineer (19)
- Carmen Rubino – engineer (20)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ginell, Richard S. "The Best of Mose Allison – Album Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 29, 2017.