Dennis Moss was a British jazz tenor saxophonist.
11 Facts About Danny Moss
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Danny Moss performed with many figures in British jazz, including Vic Lewis, Ted Heath, John Dankworth, Alex Welsh, and Humphrey Lyttelton.
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The son of a toolmaker, Danny Moss was born in Redhill, Surrey in 1927.
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Danny Moss was self-taught on both this and the tenor saxophone, which he took up at school.
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Soon Danny Moss found the group's focus on novelty numbers and faithful musical reproductions, including that of solos, to be limiting to his skills as an improviser, and he left after three years.
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Danny Moss then married jazz singer Jeanie Lambe on 6 January 1964, and the couple moved from London to Sussex at her suggestion.
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Danny Moss continued to tour with this quartet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, playing and recording with American singers like Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan and Rosemary Clooney, and appeared as a guest soloist with Buck Clayton on a Humphrey Lyttelton album, Me And Buck in 1963.
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Danny Moss worked with Louis Armstrong on his last British tour.
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Danny Moss later co-founded British jazz "supergroup" Pizza Express All-Stars in 1980, playing with them until the end of the 1980s.
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Danny Moss participated in a video produced by Phil Strachan for the Australian medical website Virtual Medical Centre where he was interviewed about his illness and chemotherapy treatment.
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Danny Moss died on 28 May 2008, aged 80, survived by Lambe and the couple's two sons.