About Mose Allison: Mose John Allison, Jr. is an American jazz blues pianist, singer and songwriter.
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
I'm playin' the music I like.
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.
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.
