François Moseley

François Moseley was an American jazz - drummer and bandleader .

Live and act

Moseley came from New Orleans and worked in Chicago in the late 1920s with his Territory Band François Moseley's Louisiana Stompers , in which the pianist Albert Ammons also played in 1929 . There he then appeared in the following years as Frankie Franko & His Louisianians . His band also included the trumpeter and singer Punch Miller and the saxophonist Franz Jackson . The Louisianians had a regular engagement at The Golden Lily nightclub (309 East 55th Street on Garfield Blvd.) in Chicago from 1929 to 1934 . In 1930 Moseley took on Melotone for the labeltwo record sides on, the songs Golden Lily Blues and Somebody Stole My Girl . No further recordings by Moseley are available from later years.

Discographic notes

• Jazz The World Forgot Volume 1 (Jazz Classics Of The 1920's) (Yazoo, 1996)
• R. Crumb's Heroes Of Blues, Jazz & Country (2006)

Web links

• Redhotjazz
• François Moseley at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Chilton: Who's Who in Jazz
2. ↑ Information on Ammons at Oxford African American Studies Center  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Franz Jackson's website
4. ^ Charles Delaunay : Hot discographie encyclopedique 1952 Volume 3 (El-He) . Paris, Éditions Jazz Disques, 1952.