Mose Allison was born in the Mississippi Delta on his grandfathers farm near the village of Tippo. At five he discovered he could play the piano by ear and began picking out blues and boogie tunes he ...
Mose Allison, a genre-defying pianist, singer and composer/lyricist whose wittily sardonic, blues-driven songs earned him the title of “The William Faulkner of Jazz,” has died. The news was confirmed ...
St. Augustine, FL, Nov. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Fort Mose Jazz and Blues Series returns to Fort Mose Historic State Park February 6-15, 2026, celebrating five years of music, community, and ...
At 82, Mose Allison has lost none of his edge. Allison started playing the piano at age 5, on his parents' farm in the Mississippi Delta. He absorbed the blues, jazz, boogie-woogie. He played in bands ...
Soldiers reenact a battle at Fort Mose. Located just outside of St. Augustine, Fort Mose was the first free, Black settlement in what would become the United States of America. Florida Park Service It ...
There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...
Folk artist Mose Tolliver, whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature and the female form, done in humble house paint, made him one of the leaders of the modern-day “outsider art” movement, has ...