Mose Allison - Lessons in Living (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) (1983/2006/2017) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Though ever-busy as a live performer, Mose Allison rarely ventured into the recording studio during the late '70s and early '80s, making this fine concert set all the more valuable. LESSONS IN LIVING was cut at the Montreux Jazz Festival with a stellar backing band including Jack Bruce (bass), Billy Cobham (drums), Eric Gale (guitar) and Lou Donaldson (saxophone), all of whom get a chance to shine on these nine tracks. Allison's voice and piano playing are in peak form as well, and the man's understated cool comes through perfectly on a mix of classics (“Your Mind Is On Vacation”), recent songs (“Middle Class White Boy”) and re-imagined standards (“You Are My Sunshine”). LESSONS IN LIVING now celebrates its 35th anniversary, and it still qualifies as a master class in blues-oriented jazz.

TRACKLIST

1. Lou Donaldson - Lost Mind (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
2. Lou Donaldson - Wild Man on the Loose (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
3. Lou Donaldson - Your Mind Is on Vacation (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
4. Lou Donaldson - You Are My Sunshine (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
5. Lou Donaldson - Seventh Son (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
6. Lou Donaldson - Everybody Cryin' Mercy (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
7. Lou Donaldson - Middle Class White Boy (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
8. Lou Donaldson - I Don't Worry About a Thing (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)
9. Lou Donaldson - Night Club (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1982)



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