Mose Allison – review

Pizza Express Jazz Club, LondonThe ways that surging adrenaline and reawakened memories ignite elderly legends when they reach the spotlight is one of the peripheral fascinations of witnessing live jazz. Sonny Rollins's bent posture straightens and his laboured gait vanishes when the rhythm section summons him to blow. Mose Allison, the 83-year-old Mississippi-born vocalist, pianist and poetic observer of humanity came on stage at the Pizza Express with a coat half on and half off, shuffled pape...

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