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Who Is... Mose Allison?

Geoffrey Himes, Music Aficionado, October 2016

THE LEGENDARY British organ player Georgie Fame once described his hero Mose Allison as "the jazz version of Bob Dylan." When an interviewer asked Fame's longtime employer Van Morrison about that description, Morrison said, "I wouldn't put it that way. He's more the jazz version of Lenny Bruce."

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