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Tullio Mobiglia was born in Carezzano, Italy on April 12, 1911. In the early 1930s, after his studies at the conservatory in Genova and his first local engagements, he made several trips to the United States as a member of an on-board ship’s orchestra. Once in America, he made the acquaintance of the leading tenor saxophonists, including Coleman Hawkins.

In 1940 he visited Berlin, Germany as a member of the Italian Orchestra Mirador and in 1941 Tullio was with the Heinz Wehner Orchestra, and from April to November, he formed his own sextet played in the Patria Bar and was also in the Komiker Cafe’s musical revue Dreams About Me.

In the early Forties, Mobiglia’s orchestra played in the Rosita Bar and he also did some Film and Recordings during this period. Kramer combined musicians from two different generations to form his orchestra utilizing trumpeter Alfredo Marzaroli and saxophonist and clarinetist Francesco Paolo Ricci from the Twenties along with the younger members, Tullio Mobiglia, Eraldo Romanoni, Carlo Pecori, and the Triestino Angelo Bartole that performed during the Second World War II in Berlin.

After the war, he operated mainly in Italy, but also performed in Dortmund and Frankfurt Germany. From 1967 into the ’80s, he was active as a violin teacher at the Sibelius Conservatory in Helsinki, Finland.

Tullio directed a band without interruption in Berlin between 1941 and 1943, along with the Kramer’s Orchestra during the second half of the Thirties, the only stable group in the history of Italian Jazz between the years 1935 and ’43. He enlisted the brilliant and inventive guitarist Alfio Grasso to take part in the recordings.

Tenor saxophonist, violinist and bandleader Tullio Mobiglia passed away on July 24, 1991, aged 80, in Helsinki, Finland.

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