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He taught himself music theory and harmony and soon began performing professionally by age 19, working with Paul Gayten’s R&B band and later joining Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie’s ensembles. His early work with Art Blakey and Horace Silver helped establish the hard bop style, and he made his Blue Note debut in 1955 with the Hank Mobley Quartet.\r\n\r\nMobley built a signature style marked by a smooth, lyrical tone that balanced between the aggressiveness of contemporaries like Coltrane and the cool restraint of Lester Young—earning Leonard Feather’s nickname for him as the “middleweight champion” of tenor sax. His melodic fluency and rhythmic sophistication allowed him to stand out even among stellar rhythm sections and horn players like Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd.\r\n\r\nHis most celebrated recordings include Soul Station (1960), Roll Call (1960), Workout (1961), No Room for Squares (1963) and A Caddy for Daddy (1965). 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