| Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Bill Mobley has lived in New York City since 1987. He has performed in New York with the Marvin "Smitty" Smith Sextet, the Clifford Jordan Big Band, the George Coleman Octet, the James Williams Group, the Goeff Keezer Band, the Mingus Dynasty Band, the T.S. Monk Band, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Orchestra, and has led his own Space Time Jazz Orchestra in various venues in the City. Bill has toured in Europe with his own group, and with those of Donald Brown and James Williams. In the case of James Williams, tours also included Japan. Bill also is a regular performer with the NuYorkestra, the Pete McGuinness Big Band, the Chuck Braman Quintet and Bill's own two groups: the Mobscene Quintet and SpaceTime big Band. Bill taught music at the Berklee School of Music in Boston from 1982-1986, and presently teaches at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Bill has also taught at Summer Jazz Camps in Maine, and Public City Schools of New York as a visiting artist through the company 144 Music and Arts. Bill has conducted clincs in performance, arranging and composition at colleges and universities across the United States. He holds a Masters Degree in Music from Manhattan School of Music (1987) BILL MOBLEY DISCOGRAPHY AS A LEADER: TRIPLE BILL Evidence Records 1996 THE BILL MOBLEY JAZZ ORCHESTRA LIVE AT SMALL'S VOL.1 Space Time Records, 1997 THE BILL MOBLEY JAZZ ORCHESTRA LIVE AT SMALL'S VOL.2 1998 MEAN WHAT YOU SAY Space Time Records 1999 NEW LIGHT BILL MOBLEY AND THE SPACE TIME BIG BAND Space Time Records 2001 MOBSCENE - SINGULARITY Bill Mobley, Danny Walsh and Pete Davenport Space Time Records 2005 Bill Mobley MOODSCAPE Mulgrew Miller, Robert Hurst, Eric Harland Space Time Records 2007 AS A SIDEPERSON FOR OTHER ARTISTS BILL HAS APPEARED ON RECORDINGS OF: HEATHER BENNETT: SUITE TALK Apria Records 2003 CONTINUUM Gary Bartz, Donald Brown, Essiet Essiet, Billy Kilson, Jean Toussaint, Bill Mobley Blue Geodesics= Space Time Records 2003 JEAN TOUSSAINT: BLUE BLACK Space Time Records 2002 DONALD BROWN : AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE Space Time Records 2000 WURD ON THE SKREET Space Time Records 1998 CAR TUNES MUSE RECORDS THE EARLY BIRD Sunnyside Records 1989 BILL EASLEY EASLEY SAID Space Tine Records 1998 FIRST CALL Fantasy Records GEOFF KEEZER OTHER SPHERES DIW Records WAITING IN THE WINGS Sunnyside Records HAROLD MABERN JR. THE LEADING MAN DIW Records BILL PIERCE CHUCK'S GROOVE Sunnyside Records JAMES WILLIAMS ATTITUDES OF AN EVERYDAY MAN DIW Records MEMPHIS CONVENTION DIW Records |

| JAZZ SHOULD-BE-BETTER-KNOWNS By Zan Stewart Downbeat February 1999 |


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