Sandy Mosse

The man whose name sounds like a description of the ground near a brook was a jazz tenor saxophonist who is remembered fondly on both the Chicago and European jazz scenes. Several times in his life he left America for extended stays, eventually marrying a Dutch woman and fulfilling what is many an American musician's lifelong dream: to retire in Amsterdam. Not that Sandy Mosse ever really retired; he kept playing til the end, showing off a lovely fuzzy tone that he was personally happy to trace back to Lester Young, his first and biggest influence. Mosse's final decades were a...