I loved interviewing pianist Mose Allison for The Wall Street Journal (here) and for JazzWax (here) in 2010. Mose was a singular artist with a wry sense of humor and a rich, home-grown keyboard style who understood rural wisdom, hard work and suffering. Mose relocated to New York from Mississippi in the mid-1950s as a jazz sideman. By the late '50s, he …
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