Sandy Mosse was an American jazz tenor saxophonist influenced by Lester Young. Mosse learned clarinet and alto saxophone early in life, and switched to tenor sax at the beginning of the 1950s. Based out of Chicago during the decade, he made several forays abroad, playing in Paris with Wallace Bishop in 1951, Django Reinhardt, and Woody Herman on his 1953 tour of Europe. Upon returning to Chicago in 1955 he played with Bill Russo, Chubby Jackson, James Moody, and Cy Touff.

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  • Sandy Mosse was an American jazz tenor saxophonist influenced by Lester Young. Mosse learned clarinet and alto saxophone early in life, and switched to tenor sax at the beginning of the 1950s. Based out of Chicago during the decade, he made several forays abroad, playing in Paris with Wallace Bishop in 1951, Django Reinhardt, and Woody Herman on his 1953 tour of Europe. Upon returning to Chicago in 1955 he played with Bill Russo, Chubby Jackson, James Moody, and Cy Touff. Mosse and Touff also co-led an octet called Pieces of Eight late in the 1950s into the early 1960s, featuring trumpeter John Howell. He received awards from Down Beat and Playboy late in the 1950s. In the 1960s he played with Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, and Dave Remington; that same decade he was diagnosed with cancer. Mosse married a Dutch woman, and he moved to Amsterdam in the 1970s, playing on national radio and teaching at the Royal Dutch Conservatory. He recorded less, but occasionally toured the U.S. with the likes of Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. In the Netherlands, he played with an ensemble called Volume Two, with Irvin Rochlin, Klaus Flenter, Evert Hekkema, Ben Gerritsen, and Lex Cohen.
  • Sanford Mosse, (auch Sandy Mosse) ist ein US-amerikanischer Tenorsaxophonist des Swing und des Modern Jazz. Sandy Mosse war zunächst in Detroiter Orchestern engagiert. 1951 bis 1953 hielt er sich in Paris auf und spielte dort mit Henri Renauds All Stars, Wallace Bishop und anderen Formationen. Nach seiner Rückkehr in die USA arbeitete er in Chicago mit Chubby Jackson und Bill Russo, als Gastmusiker auch in den Big Bands von Woody Herman 1953, Maynard Ferguson 1956, Buddy Rich 1956 und Ray Eberle 1959. Außerdem nahm Sandy Mosse Platten mit Cy Touff, James Moody sowie unter eigenem Namen auf.
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  • Sandy Mosse was an American jazz tenor saxophonist influenced by Lester Young. Mosse learned clarinet and alto saxophone early in life, and switched to tenor sax at the beginning of the 1950s. Based out of Chicago during the decade, he made several forays abroad, playing in Paris with Wallace Bishop in 1951, Django Reinhardt, and Woody Herman on his 1953 tour of Europe. Upon returning to Chicago in 1955 he played with Bill Russo, Chubby Jackson, James Moody, and Cy Touff.
  • Sanford Mosse, (auch Sandy Mosse) ist ein US-amerikanischer Tenorsaxophonist des Swing und des Modern Jazz. Sandy Mosse war zunächst in Detroiter Orchestern engagiert. 1951 bis 1953 hielt er sich in Paris auf und spielte dort mit Henri Renauds All Stars, Wallace Bishop und anderen Formationen.
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