Jazz / Hard Bop; Jazz Blues; Vocal Jazz
Recorded: Nov 8, 1957, Hackensack, New Jersey
Local Color was recorded to follow up on the success of Mose Allison\'s acclaimed Back Country Suite, his debut as a leader. It contained a piece that has been indelibly associated with Allison ever since, the mordant and ironic "Parchman Farm." Although "Parchman Farm" was the real launching pad for Allison\'s career as a singer, when he made this album he was still known primarily as a fine pianist who drew upon the example of Nat Cole and the inspiration of early blues forms. There is plenty of his emotionally direct, harmonically ingenious piano improvisation here, a telling vocal on Percy Mayfield\'s "Lost Mind," and a reminder that Allison deprived the jazz world of a unique stylist when he abandoned the trumpet.
Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler.
Mose Allison - piano
Addison Farmer - bass
Nick Stabulas - drums |
