Roger Mozian

Roger "King" Mozian (June 29, 1927 – May 16, 1963) was an American trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader.

Born in New York City, the son of Armenian immigrants, Mozian attended New York University and began playing trumpet in jazz and Latin groups in the city in the late 1940s.

He continued to write and perform, forming his own band and making his first recordings as Roger King Mozian in 1953 on the Clef label established by Norman Granz.

Mozian continued the regime in Florida at a clinic run by another chiropractor, Dr. Bernard Epstein.

Although Mozian was briefly treated at a conventional hospital in Miami when his condition worsened, he died soon afterwards, aged 35.