Snub Mosley

Snub Mosley.
Photo: William P. Gottlieb .

Lawrence Leo "Snub" Mosley (born December 29, 1905 in Little Rock , Arkansas , † July 21, 1981 in Harlem , New York City ) was an American jazz trombonist and band leader . He developed the so-called slide saxophone . The instrument has a saxophone mouthpiece, but has no keys, but a slider with which the pitch can be "regulated".

Live and act

Mosley played the trombone in high school and received instrumental training at Cutaire Music School in Cincinnati . He began his career in the territory band of Alphonse Trent , where he remained from 1926 to 1933. In the following years he played in the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra (1934), with Claude Hopkins (1934/35), with Louis Armstrong in the Luis Russell Orchestra (1936/37) and with Fats Waller (1937). From 1938 he played with his own formations, which included musicians such as Tommy Benford , Bernard Addison and Skeets Tolbert . During the Second World War he directed a military band that was used in the South Pacific and also accompanied Alberta Hunter . He then settled in New York City , where he worked mainly at the local level until his death. In 1952 he was on a European tour. Mosley played the trombone for most of his career , but also the slide saxophone , which gave him a certain popularity and which was used in his recording of The Man with the Funny Little Horn (1940).

Under his own name, he recorded 1940-1942 for Decca , later for the label Sonora 1946, Penguin 1949, Columbia 1959 and Pizza 1978 on.

Lexigraphic entries

Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclam's jazz guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1970 ( Universal Library 10185/10196).
Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Anthony Baines: The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-1931-1334-1 . P. 311.

personal data
SURNAME	Mosley, Snub
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mosley, Lawrence Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Little rock
DATE OF DEATH	July 21, 1981
Place of death	Harlem , New York City

[1] Anthony Baines: The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-1931-1334-1 . P. 311.