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 New York
Genre	Blues / Jazz
Length	44:41
Producer	Teo Macero
Mose Allison chronology
Transfiguration of Hiram Brown (1959) I Love the Life I Live (1960) Takes to the Hills (1961)

Track listing

All compositions by Mose Allison except as indicated

1. "I Love the Life I Live" (Willie Dixon) - 2:22
2. "News" - 3:11
3. "Fool's Paradise" (Jerry Fuller, Robert Geddins, Dan Rosenbaum) - 3:29
4. "You Turned the Tables on Me" (Sidney Mitchell, Louis Alter) - 3:51
5. "Isobel" (Al Cohn) - 4:26
6. "You're a Sweetheart" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:11
7. "Night Ride" - 3:12
8. "Path" - 3:33
9. "Mad with You" (Lightnin' Hopkins) - 2:10
10. "Hittin' on One" - 3:30
11. "I Ain't Got Nobody" (Roger Graham, Spencer Williams) - 1:51
12. "Can't We Be Friends" (Paul James, Kay Swift) - 4:25
13. "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (Irving Berlin) - 3:18 (bonus track on CD)
14. "Am I Blue" (Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) - 3:24 (bonus track on CD)

Personnel

On tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9 (recorded June 28 and July 5, 1960):

• Mose Allison - piano, vocals
• Addison Farmer - bass
• Jerry Segal - drums

On tracks 1, 2, 6, and 10 (recorded June 30, 1960):

• Mose Allison - piano, vocals
• Henry Grimes - bass
• Paul Motian - drums

On tracks 5, 11, and 12 (recorded September 9, 1960):

• Mose Allison - piano, vocals
• Bill Crow - bass
• Gus Johnson - drums

References