American - Musician | November 11, 1927 -
It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.
Mose Allison
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My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
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Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.
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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
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Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
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Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
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