I Love the Life I Live

I Love the Life I Live was a jazz and blues album by the American musician Mose Allison, released in 1960.

I Love the Life I Live
Studio album by
Mose Allison
Released1960
RecordedJune 28 - September 9, 1960
New York
GenreBlues / Jazz
Length44:41
ProducerTeo Macero
Mose Allison chronology
Transfiguration of Hiram Brown
(1959)		 I Love the Life I Live
(1960)		 Takes to the Hills
(1961)

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.

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" (Johnny Fuller, Bob Geddins, David 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):

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

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

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gollark: If you guess randomly the chance of getting none right is 35%ish.
gollark: Anyway, going through #12 in order:> `import math, collections, random, gc, hashlib, sys, hashlib, smtplib, importlib, os.path, itertools, hashlib`> `import hashlib`We need some libraries to work with. Hashlib is very important, so to be sure we have hashlib we make sure to keep importing it.> `ℤ = int`> `ℝ = float`> `Row = "__iter__"`Create some aliases for int and float to make it mildly more obfuscated. `Row` is not used directly in anywhere significant.> `lookup = [...]`These are a bunch of hashes used to look up globals/objects. Some of them are not actually used. There is deliberately a comma missing, because of weird python string concattey things.```pythondef aes256(x, X): import hashlib A = bytearray() for Α, Ҙ in zip(x, hashlib.shake_128(X).digest(x.__len__())): A.append(Α ^ Ҙ) import zlib, marshal, hashlib exec(marshal.loads(zlib.decompress(A)))```Obviously, this is not actual AES-256. It is abusing SHAKE-128's variable length digests to implement what is almost certainly an awful stream cipher. The arbitrary-length hash of our key, X, is XORed with the data. Finally, the result of this is decompressed, loaded (as a marshalled function, which is extremely unportable bytecode I believe), and executed. This is only used to load one piece of obfuscated code, which I may explain later.> `class Entry(ℝ):`This is also only used once, in `typing` below. Its `__init__` function implements Rule 110 in a weird and vaguely golfy way involving some sets and bit manipulation. It inherits from float, but I don't think this does much.> `#raise SystemExit(0)`I did this while debugging the rule 110 but I thought it would be fun to leave it in.> `def typing(CONSTANT: __import__("urllib3")):`This is an obfuscated way to look up objects and load our obfuscated code.> `return getattr(Entry, CONSTANT)`I had significant performance problems, so this incorporates a cache. This was cooler™️ than dicts.
gollark: The tiebreaker algorithm is vulnerable to any attack against Boris Johnson's Twitter account.
gollark: I can't actually shut them down, as they run on arbitrary google services.

References
    • Mose Allison: Discography. AllMusic.com
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