Rock Steady with Van Morrison and Mose Allison

[@rambojambone4586]

Wow! Just found this!! Met Mose about 20 years ago at Chicago Jazz fest!!

[@ripetomato9629]

November 11 1927 - November 15 2016 Rest in Peace Mr Mose Allison. You're a trip!

[@AndyDentonSculpture]

This is mind-blowing!

[@RichardDunkley-s5e]

Great band Van is a legend

[@missellendiane]

amazing thanks so much- RIP MA

[@dominiquepaul6877]

Fantastic!! Thank you for this post

[@0otee]

Lovely these 2 2gether Van with his Irish Accent and sonor sharp voice and Grand Pianoman Mose👌❣️🌹🌞💥Jazzy Great🌷🌹💫

[@janhensley5410]

RIP Mose Allison. Love to Van The Man. ❤️

[@DANVIIL]

Hell of a comb over on Van. Mose. The Sage of Tippoe, Mose Allison - one of a kind.

[@dianedarcangelo2983]

When the leaves come fallingdown

[@fredrictengstrom5646]

Oh dear.Divine

[@johnkeethdenby]

Oh no the great Better Dead than Trump exodus continues. I first heard of Mose and listened to the Mose Allison Sings album in the Bar Domino in Ibiza Old Town Harbour, must've been around 1964. I know I had a Beatles haircut and hitch hiked there (a boat was also involved. Ibiza is an island doncha know) with my old buddy Rod Stephens (also RIP). They played this record all the time in that bar. It was the bartender's favourite and soon it was mine. We just just sat and sipped beers (very slowly, we were pretty broke) or the odd glass of Absinthe if we felt extravagant). Then many years later I worked on this Rock Steady Channel 4 TV shows with my pal Andy Hudson and the Holmes Associates posse. Had a crazy lunch/production meeting with a very dignified and patient Mose and a very late arriving and somewhat manic Van Morrison before the Bristol show. The jazz agent Lord Romford (aka Brian Theobald also RIP) was there representing two musicians and promised to calm Van down with buckets of red wine which did in fact seem to work. While talking repertoire for the set I recall Mose telling me in his great southern drawl that he didn't sing those cotton pickin' songs any more. I guess he meant Parchman Farm. Also remember sitting in the front row during soundcheck with stage manager Colin Rowell and we cried real man tears as those two geniuses took flight and made some seriously wonderful music. Oh and Ruby Blue were the opening act, and the lead singer lady (Rebecca Pidgeon) went on to marry playwright David Mamet. Who said we are not cultured? Anyway, whoever next for the big backstage bar in the sky? Just don’t make it too soon eh?

[@softailspringer9915]

man, what a story!

[@raystaar]

Dave Fanning, who looks all of 26, can be forgiven for underestimating both Van Morrison's and Mose Allison's tenure in music. I saw Van playing a tent in Cambridge, MA in 1967. That's 49 years ago. Mose' hit, 'Seventh Son' was released almost 60 years ago.

[@johnbigham9118]

Love Mose.

[@randychaparral2124]

WOW!

[@nelsonlugo45]

F*CK YEAH.

[@vjekoslavpavlinic2105]

Van,I'm cleaning the windows

[@MsKatzeyez]

It just doesn't get any better.

[@TimNelson]

Can’t think of two more originals. Both went their own way, never sold out to record company bull crap.

[@rhondajohnson6247]

....not sure if Van has smiled as much as he has the last few months!!!! I think he has had many magic nights!

[@vjekoslavpavlinic2105]

kada će taj konačno u Zagreb?

[@DennisSheaPRM]

Van & Mose were a match made in heaven. Like to have seen the whole gig. Moon Dance was lacking. Sax player went off in the wrong direction but Mose brought it back in. Van always has good bands and working with one of his heroes had to be pure joy. Hope those two T.V. guys have learned something in the 28 years since the filmed this. Van IS the Man and long live Mose Allison! At least in our repertoires.

[@alanmessenger9397]

Well, I was looking primarily for Mose playing his sublime solo piano. This will do nicely, for now. I have to wonder about your comment about the 'sax player'- on Moondance (one word, FYI). He played a good standard solo chorus, name checked by Van, nothing wrong at all. He being great jazz tenor Alan Skidmore!

[@MrJazzguitar2]

Is that the Penguin singing ?...

[@karencontestabile6125]

Please re-engineer this!!!!! More volume...HD picture quality is needed...Mose just passed away...We are posting this on FB nonetheless...thanks...

[@vjekoslavpavlinic2105]

now I'm dreaming for place to go,my literaly option is Paragvay,ich bin zimlich unglicklicklich obwohl ' epur si move......nostalgia of staying...nowhere to go...best regards

[@PedroCucuchucho]

Lonnie Donegan, Chris Barber and Van Morrison. Rockabilly. Now jazz with Mose Allison. Always good Mr. Morrison.

[@1satisfiedmind]

Mose died today

[@jeromeburger3062]

Mose "Was"

[@leilanireyes7014]

Rocky Mountain Ras So sad!

[@0otee]

Mose is here to stay and he knew🌹

[@Dunwich_Kev]

Mose was the seventh son. Willie Dixon would have been so proud of him. I was taken by Mose in the late seventies with Parchment Farm. His was an original. My first keyboard was a Fender Rhodes 73. Played the pubs 3 nights a week in the East end of London and relied on my dad to drive me and the keyboard to the venues. So got into Mose and was also close to Van. The other great influence on me was Georgie Fame. Elton and Billy were always special as while growing up with piano and voice. Thanks Mose and Van 👏🎶👍

[@johnnysunshine5007]

See? I never looked at music like 'pealing layers' off an onion because everyone knows the phrase 'Its all over but the cryin' If ya don't, then work for an Italian restaurant. Music and longevity...music means time...You don't peel layers....rather.. You step back from the chalkboard from time to time to make sure the proof is good.

[@MrMusicguyma]

Van is talking about the origins of Gospel, blues, country & western, rock and roll, jazz, western swing. Most western music popular forms result from the collision of Anglo-celtic lyrical traditions melded with African-derived rhythms. Now, it is not required to understand this history in order to make music, but it helps in seeing the big picture if you wish to. See? :)

[@walterkersting9922]

Likely on the spectrum…