{"id":5070,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/mose-allison-greatest-hits-the-prestige-collection\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"mose-allison-greatest-hits-the-prestige-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Mose Allison &#8211; Greatest Hits &#8211; The Prestige Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:14pt\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Mose Allison<br \/><\/font><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">Greatest Hits<br \/><font size=\"1\">The Prestige Collection<\/font><\/font><\/b><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">(Orig Jazz Classics &#8211; 1988\/91)<br \/> by Matthew S. Robinson<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">From Tippo, MS to the tip of Jazz&#8217;s pantheon, Mose Allison has had one of the genre&#8217;s most enduring and beloved careers. Now well into his golden years, tis honey and chickoree-voiced storyteller continues to reminisce about his beloved South. Among the prevalent themes on this gently sparkling collection are the infamous 12-foot cotton sack and other elements of life on the plantation (including life on the penal farm for spousal homicide). It was a different place and a different age, but Allison sing-songs about it as if he lived it himself. And when he&#8217;s not singing about a life not lived, Allison offers equally personalized renditions of the greats, from Ellington to Williamson and Ray Charles to Willie Dixon.   <\/p>\n<p>Though his Chet Baker-y vocals are occassionally under-propped, Allsion&#8217;s jaunty key work is impressive and fun on its own. His pianist take on &#8220;Blueberry Hill&#8221; gets up there a bit faster than Fats Domino, but the svelte Allison is in better shape anyhow. While waiting for one or the other of his musical skills to take shape on &#8220;Trouble in Mind,&#8221; the Baker comparison takes on more wight as Allison reveals himself as a capable horn man as well. So many skills over so many years make this collection and this man a treasure for Rebel and Yankee alike.  <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">\u00a92002, M. S. Robinson, ARR                <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mose AllisonGreatest HitsThe Prestige Collection(Orig Jazz Classics &#8211; 1988\/91) by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}