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BIOGRAPHY Although Cobbs was a veteran musician, Cobbs' recorded output is fairly small. He worked most notably with the ''. Accessed July 2 , 2007 . In his youth, Cobbs served as companion and guide to the pianist Art Tatum and later accompanied Billie Holiday and replaced Hamp Hawes in the band of Wardell Gray . Cobbs also worked and recorded with the Alto Saxophonist Johnny Hodges in 1954 , when Hodges' band included John Coltrane . He studied the Schillinger System of Musical Composition . Cobbs was killed by a Hit And Run driver on September 21, 1971. He died at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx , New York. He was 60 years old. DISCOGRAPHY
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