Italian saxophonist and violinist, born 12 April 1911 in Carezzano, Italy, died 24 July 1991 in Helsinki, Finland.

Probably the best Italian jazz saxophonist of his generation, Tullio Mobiglia traveled to the U.S.A. on several occasions as part of a ship orchestra, which allowed him to meet and jam with some of the leading American jazz saxophonists, including Coleman Hawkins. In 1940, he made his first visit to Berlin as part of the Italian Orchestra Mirador. In February 1941, he joined the Heinz Wehner Orchestra. After that, he formed his own sextet that performed in Berlin’s Patria Bar between April and November 1941. With this sextet, he cut his first recordings for Brunswick in October 1941. In September and October 1941, Mobiglia also performed in the Komiker Cafe’s musical revue Dreams About Me. Between 1942 and August 1943, Mobiglia’s Bar-Orchestra played in another popular Berlin dive called the Rosita Bar. During that time, they recorded their hit Lieber Sonnenschein, a jazz arrangement of Mario Panzeri and Gorni Kramer’s song Pippo Non Lo Sa.

Mobiglia returned to Italy in 1943, but was able to restart his recording activities only in 1945, when he created a new orchestra that began recording for Columbia. Later, he cut records with Telefunken, Cetra and Durium; he also took up again his first instrument, the violin. In 1967, he moved to Finland, where he taught violin at the Jan Sibelius Conservatory in Helsinki into the 1980s.