John Mosher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Mosher was an American jazz bassist, classical bassist and composer who worked, recorded and toured with a wide range of primarily West Coast artists from the 1950s through the mid-1990s. Early years A native of Sioux City, Iowa, John Mosher was raised on the city's west side, the son of a vaudeville-era bandleader. He studied piano and violin as a child. While attending Central High School he was befriended by veteran big band sideman Johnny Kopecky, under whom he studied both the double bass and violin. After military service in an Army band near the close of World War II, Mosher returned to Sioux City where he landed a steady job as bassist in the house band led by tenor sax player Don Couch at the Turin Inn, a venerable Sioux City jazz club that regularly featured big name touring jazz artists—including the Bud Powell Trio. He then moved to Boston for concentrated double bass studies at the Schillinger Institute, which later became the Berklee School of Music.
