Sage of Tippo

Mose Allison | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 9, 1998
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: 32. Jazz Records
• ASIN: B000006PVK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,171 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Swingin' Machine - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

2. Do It - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

3. Stop This World - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

4. Promenade - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

5. If You're Goin' To The City - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

6. Saritha - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

7. I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

8. So Rare - Mose Allison/Jimmy Knepper/Jimmy Reider/Addison Farmer/Frankie Dunlop

9. Foolkiller - Mose Allison/Ben Tucker/Ron Lundberg

10. One Of These Days - Mose Allison/Ben Tucker/Ron Lundberg

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Wild Man On The Loose - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

2. No Trouble Livin' - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

3. Night Watch - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

4. What's With You - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

5. Power House - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

6. You Can Count On Me To Do My Part - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

7. Never More - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

8. That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

9. War Horse - Mose Allison/Earl May/Paul Motian

10. Jus Like Livin' - Mose Allison/Red Mitchell/Bill Goodwin

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars No such thing as too much of a good thing, February 2, 2010

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Eric C. Sedensky "late-to-jazz musician" (Madison, AL, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sage of Tippo (Audio CD)

I don't know why one doesn't hear more about musicians like Mose Allison. Here's a guy who's been around for years, always making interesting and high-quality music, yet until I picked up PJG, I didn't know who he was. (Okay, so maybe I don't get out as much as I would like...) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Ninth Editionlists Allison's "The Word from Mose" as one of its core collection recordings, but on this set, you get everything from that phenomenal work, plus three more LP's worth of material. And man, this stuff is the bee's knees, I'm telling you! Mose is the quintessential blues man, taking simple songs and simple words and making the feelings - bitterness, disappointment, surprise - come out. He intersperses all his recordings with a few instrumentals to give him a chance or two to focus on his crisp, swinging piano playing. He's not the world's best singer, but he stays within his limitations so that when he's putting together one of his clever iambic pentameter (see Bernstein Century: Bernstein on Jazz - What is Jazz?) lamenting riffs over a standard twelve-bar blues, he's really at his best. The price of this 2-CD set is only a little more than for a single CD, yet it contains four times as much music, so believe me when I say, whether you have or haven't heard of him and his music before, if you like jazz and blues, you can never have too much of Mose Allison. Buy more, save more, be "more happy".

5.0 out of 5 stars Thus Spake The Jazz Sage!, November 21, 2000

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This review is from: Sage of Tippo (Audio CD)

It's a MUST!! Four incomparable Mose albums (Atlantic, early-to-mid-60s) on two CDs. A truckload of classics: "Look Here," "If You're Goin' To The City," "Foolkiller," "Stop This World," "Your Molecular Structure," it just goes on and on. Impeccable jazz and blues and the incomparable lyrics and delivery of one of America's great overlooked wits. Buy this set right now. I'm not kidding. It will be one of the coolest things you've heard in an awful long time, if not ever. Guaranteed!