Curtis J. Mosby (July 7, 1895 (or 1892)[1] in Kansas City, Missouri – June 25, 1957 in San Francisco) was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and businessman.
He took an extended residency in 1924 at Solomon's Dance Pavilion in Los Angeles; this ensemble recorded privately, and some of these cuts have survived.
Over the course of the 1930s he opened several clubs, not all of them successful, along the California coastline; musicians who appeared in his bands included Lawrence Brown, Marshal Royal, Wilbert Baranco, Baron Moorehead, and Buck Clayton.
Mosby and Leon Hefflin Sr. financed and produced the Sweet N' Hot musical featuring Dorothy Dandridge and a cast of 50, at the Mayan theatre in Los Angeles in 1944.
He was jailed for tax evasion from 1947 to 1949 and lost control of his clubs; after serving his time, he reopened some of them and then permanently moved to San Francisco.