MOSE VINSON

    A la temprana edad de 5 años ya tocaba el piano MOSE VINSON. Dejó grabados varios albums que sin duda marcaban una progresion en su forma de hacer , al más puro estilo barrelhouse  & Boogie -Woogie en sus inicios,  se fué inclinando luego por una forma más cercana al Blues, e incluso al Jazz, eso sí , sin abandonar su propia manera de entender y de tocar el piano. 

Mose Vinson (June 2 or August 7, 1917 – November 16, 2002) was an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist and singer. His best known recordings were "Blues with a Feeling" and "Sweet Root Man". Over his lengthy career, Vinson worked with various musicians including Booker T. Laury and James Cotton.

Vinson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He taught himself how to play the piano as a child. In his teenage years, Vinson started playing his own style of barrelhouse boogie-woogie in local juke joints in Mississippi and Tennessee, incorporating both blues and jazz in his repertoire In 1932, following a chance meeting with Sunnyland Slim, Vinson relocated from Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee

In the 1930s and 1940s, Vinson continued to play at local juke house and rural community parties. By the early 1950s, Vinson found employment as a custodian at the Taylor Boarding Home, where artists often stayed whilst recording next door at Sun Records studios. In the studios, Sam Phillips occasionally requested that Vinson accompany musicians. These included James Cotton on "Cotton Crop Blues" (1954), and Jimmy DeBerry on the latter's "Take a Little Chance" Phillips also allowed Vinson to record some tracks of his own, although these were not released until the 1980s. Vinson recorded two versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone" (also known as "Come See Me"). Session musicians on these recordings included Walter Horton, Joe Hill Louis and Joe Willie Wilkins.

After a period of lesser musical activity, by the early 1980s, the Center for Southern Folklore had enlisted Vinson to perform at various cultural events, and at local schools. He became a regular at the Center, where he played and taught for twenty years. In 1990, his contribution towards the album, Memphis Piano Blues Today, was recorded at his home.

In 1997, his first full-length CD compilation album was released via the Center Declining health, however, stopped him playing not long before his death.

Mose Vinson died of diabetes, in November 2002 in Memphis, at the age of 85.

In 2007, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival was dedicated to his memory.

                                                 
           

Mistreatin' Boogie by Mose Vinson from the album The Be-Bob Boy (with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson)

Released 2012-04-13 on Bear Family Records GmbH

Joe Hill Louis must have been Sun president Sam Phillips' favorite bluesman. He recorded him for The Phillips, Chess, and Sun. The Sun tapes (1952-'53) are here, including Joe Hill's original versions of 'Tiger Man', 'We All Gotta Go Sometime', and the incredible 'Hydramatic Woman'. Also included are Sun recordings with Walter Horton and Mose Vinson that feature Joe Hill. Altogether, 26 titles including 'West Winds Are Blowing', '44 Blues', 'Worry You Off My Mind', and 'Little Walter's Boogie'. Essential for Sun fans and for lovers of raw electric Chicago-styled blues.

© 2012 Bear Family Records GmbH

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