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(MUSIC.) MOSBY, CURTIS. Group of eight Documents, all signed by Mosby. Partially printed and accomplished by hand; uniform 4to. should be seen. Los Angeles, 1929-1940
Curtis Mosby (1888-1957), jazz drummer, bandleader and businessman, started playing professionally at an early age. He toured Tennessee in the 1910's with the famous Blues Blowers and the Tennessee Ten. He then moved to Chicago in the early 1920's, where he opened a record store, and sometimes toured with Mamie Smith and her group. He later opened his own club. The documents vary; a contract from the 1920's for nightclub work, a claim filed against another drummer (1929); a document settling a claim against Mosby by the singer Billy Eckstine, where Mosby was ordered by the musicians' union to pay him $3000.00, a substantial sum in 1940. There are several other contracts and settlements including a settlement against Mosby's own nightclub, the Apex Café from Paul "Oxblood" Howard, a saxophone player.
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