I Love the Life I Live

I Love the Life I Live
I Love the Life I Live
Studio album by Mose Allison
Released	1960
Recorded	June 28 – September 9, 1960
Genre	Blues / Jazz
Length	44:41
Label	Columbia
Producer	Teo Macero
Mose Allison chronology

Released1960

RecordedJune 28 – September 9, 1960

GenreBlues / Jazz

Length44:41

I Love the Life I Live is an album by the American musician Mose Allison, released in 1960.^[1]

Allison became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to New York in 1956, he worked primarily in jazz settings, playing with jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims, along with producing numerous recordings.

It was produced by Teo Macero.^[1]

[1]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Love the Life I Live"	2:22
2.	"News"	3:11
3.	"Fool's Paradise"	3:29
4.	"You Turned the Tables on Me"	3:51
5.	"Isobel"	4:26
6.	"You're a Sweetheart"	2:11
7.	"Night Ride"	3:12
8.	"Path"	3:33
9.	"Mad with You"	2:10
10.	"Hittin' on One"	3:30
11.	"I Ain't Got Nobody"	1:51
12.	"Can't We Be Friends"	4:25
13.	"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (bonus track on CD)	3:18
14.	"Am I Blue" (bonus track on CD)	3:24
Total length:		49:53

v t e Mose Allison
Studio albums	Back Country Suite (1957) Local Color (1957) Young Man Mose (1958) Ramblin' with Mose (1958) Creek Bank (1958) Autumn Song (1959) Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (1960) I Love the Life I Live (1960) Takes to the Hills (1961) I Don't Worry About a Thing (1962) Swingin' Machine (1963) The Word from Mose (1964) Wild Man on the Loose (1965) I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin' (1968) Hello There, Universe (1970) Western Man (1971) Your Mind Is on Vacation (1976) Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison (1996) The Way of the World (2010)
Live albums	Mose Alive! (1966) Mose in Your Ear (1972)
Compilation albums	The Best of Mose Allison (1970) Allison Wonderland Anthology (1994)
Songs	"Parchman Farm" "Young Man Blues"

I Love the Life I Live

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