Sandy Mosse

Sandy Mosse (May 29, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan – July 1, 1983 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, influenced by Lester Young.

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.

Mosse and Touff also co-led an octet called Pieces of Eight late in the 1950s into the early 1960s, featuring trumpeter John Howell.

In the 1960s he played with Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson, and Dave Remington; he also formed a band with Warren Kime, flugel horn, called Pieces of Eight; that same decade he was diagnosed with cancer.

In the Netherlands, he played with an ensemble called Volume Two, with Irvin Rochlin, Klaus Flenter, Evert Hekkema, Ben Gerritsen, and Lex Cohen.