marcello Posted January 29, 2006 Report Posted January 29, 2006 HANK MOBLEY, 55, JAZZ MUSICIAN Services are scheduled Friday evening for Hank Mobley, 55, once one of the leading figures in jazz. The tenor saxophone player, who worked with such jazz greats as Thelonius Monk, Art Blakey, Miles Davis and Horace Silver, died last Friday at Misericordia Hospital of pneumonia. He lived in Southwest Philadelphia. Mr. Mobley, who also is credited with 140 compositions, is survived by his parents, Otis and Lillian Rogers. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Johnson Funeral Published on June 4, 1986, Page E12, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) Quote
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