That's Mose Allison on piano, of course. The album has a subdued Abstract Expressionist cover. Very fifties artifact, of a sort. It's unusual in that he only sings on a couple of tracks. But it works.
On the back cover of the CD he's quoted as saying that tenor saxophonist Lester Young "was more of an influence than any piano player." Kind of a show-offy statement, but he could afford to do that.
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Of course that's Mose on piano. Nobody else played like him,
wrote lyrics like his, or sang like him. He was also very
well loved by other musicians.
I don't think he got credit for Stevie Wonder's famous song
'Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing' but I suspect he was
familar with the song Mose wrote, 'I Don't Worry 'bout a Thing'.
This is a nice piece and it's always good to hear him again.
Oh, he certainly did have a distinctive touch in writing songs. One consequence is that he got covered by people you wouldn't necessarily associate with 50s jazz. Like say the Who doing "Young Man Blues."
Wonder is a very literate composer. He very well could have been thinking of Allison's song when he wrote "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing." It's also been compared to Horace Silver's "Song for My Father."
Glad you liked. :)
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