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	Irving Mills
		Irving Mills was born in New York City, in the Jewish ghetto on the East Side in 1894 of Jewish parents.
		Mills was one of the first to record fl and white musicians together, using twelve White musicians and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on a 12" 78 RPM disc performing St.
		Irving thought that he should insure that the Ellington Orchestra always had top musicians and protected himself by forming the Mills Blue Rhythm Band which was equally as good.
	www.redhotjazz.com /irvingmills.html (1807 words)

	American BigBands - Page 4 "M" Bands
		Ray's band can be heard on an LP issued on the Sunbeam label that also has a few words about Miller, but it's quite difficult to locate.
		Mills style was typical of the novelty bands of the thirties; bouncy and frivolous.
		Irving was also a singer, songwriter and AandR man. Among the bands that he managed were, Cab Calloway,, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which he managed from 1926 to 1939.
	nfo.net /usa/m4.html (5019 words)

	Big Band Music - Bandleaders, Musicians And Historic Jazz Magazine Articles
		During the big band era there were many territorial bands and sweet bands that played a more commercial brand of dance music.
		Many of these bands are not included here due to the absence of improvisation or jazz influence in their repertoire.
		Case in point, Lionel Hampton had been making big band swing sides with a variety of all-star groups under his own name for RCA almost since his integration into the Benny Goodman outfit in 1936 but it wasn't until 1940 that he left to front his own band.
	www.swingmusic.net /Big_Band_Playlist.html (1385 words)

	luckym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the mid thirties he was leader of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and by the mid 1940s was a leader of a big blues playing orchestra under his own name.
		In March of that year the Millinder band was on a tour of the big R and B theaters such as the Howard in D.C., Royal in Baltimore, Uptown in Philadelphia, and the Regal in Chicago.
		Millinder's hit records were few, but the vast array of musicians that were part of his various bands, from Dizzy Gillespie to Tab Smith and many in between, made his bands a great incubator of talent in the jazz and the R and B fields.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/luckym.html (1451 words)

	Johnny Williams: 1908-1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nonetheless, he made contributions to a number of significant bands, and left his mark on at least two timeless jazz recordings, both in 1939.
		The latter band often featured singer Billie Holiday, and Williams played bass on her recording of "Strange Fruit" in April, 1939, the haunting evocation of a southern lynching which became one of her most famous records.
		That listing alone is testimony to his qualities as a bass player, but after leaving Hodges's band in 1955, he retired from music in favour of more secure employment, working in a bank for 17 years.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=920476755 (412 words)

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		Basie came to New York in 1936 with a small band which he soon enlarged to the standard swing band size of five or six brass, four or five saxophones, and four rhythm.
		For many months the band broadcast nightly at 1:00 A.M. During this period Eldridge says he “left the band business to study radio engineering for eight months,” a claim which turned out to be only wishful rewriting of history.
		Due to the exposure that band gave him, he was able to go out on his own in the Fifties, being replaced in Basie’s band by vocalist Joe Williams.
	www.a-great-day-in-harlem.com /musicians.html (10767 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Maybe if it had some lyrics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mills first tried to write "Star Dust" lyrics himself.
		Within days the song, with its new words, was being performed on a remote broadcast from the Cotton Club by Mills' Blue Rhythm Band, fronted by Irving's brother Sidney Mills.
		The Blue Rhythm Band was also the first to record it, in May 1931, with Chick Bullock on vocals.
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/big_town/v-pfriendly/story/302453p-258920c.html (833 words)

	tabsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He made his way to St.Louis and played with Fate Marable and soon was a part of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
		For a short time in the early forties he was in the Count Basie band and then went to the orchestra of Lucky Millinder.
		Complicating matters is a new release on Atlantic of a previous recording by Smith - "Echo Blues" and "Moon Dream"on #961.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/tabsmith.html (1272 words)

	Irving Mills' Hotsy-Totsy Gang
		He also was a singer, songwriter, A&R man and manager of several bands that included Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Mills Blue Rhythm Band and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, which he managed from 1926 to 1939.
		His association with Duke ran deep; besides being their manager he wrote lyrics to several of Ellington's songs and sang on many of their records.
		It should be noted that the addition of publishers' names to songs was common practice in those days and the same accusations were leveled at most publishers of the era.
	www.redhotjazz.com /hotsytotsy.html (368 words)

	Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 56
		Millinder had been the leader of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, one of the early fl swing bands, until 1938.
		But, despite some top-flight jazz musicians in his band and a string of hit recordings, Jackson seemed to run out of gas by the late 1950s.
		But years later, in 1983, a man named Carl Grefenstette who was leading a rhythm and blues band called The Flashcats in Pittsburgh, sought out the all-but-forgotten rhythm and blues singer and coaxed him into appearing with the Pittsburgh band.
	www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz56.htm (982 words)

	Mills Blue Rhythm Band - 1936-1937: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The fifth and final Classics CD by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band starts out at the same high level as the fourth set.
		The music is still worthwhile, with Smith and young trumpeters Harry "Sweets" Edison and Charlie Shavers [+] in the band, but the enthusiasm was starting to drop.
		Due to the heavy competition from the many better-known orchestras, the Mills Blue Rhythm Band would soon become a forgotten part of history, but as the five Classics CDs show, the orchestra did create quite a bit of worthwhile music in the 1930s.
	www.music.com /release/1936-1937/5 (214 words)

	The Big Band Arrangers
		His work for Leonard's band estabilished his reputation and soon Dameron was writing charts for such bands as Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie (1945-47) in addition to vocal charts for Sarah Vaughan.
		During the height of the big band era, orchestras would often hire arrangers to adapt a previously written song to accommodate the talent level and style of that band.
		He was able to occasionally play in a band at just age 6, and spent a good deal of his childhood studying every instrument in the band as well as harmony, theory, composition.
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	Joe Garland b
		After studying formally and playing clarinet and saxophones in concert bands, Garland moved into danceband and jazz work under Elmer Snowden, Leon Abbey, Jelly Roll Morton, the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Lucky Millinder and Duke Ellington.
		In the late '30s and through most of the '40s he freelanced with various bands, including two spells as a member of Louis Armstrong's big band where his skilled musicianship made him invaluable.
		In due course he became musical director of the band, a position he also held with Earl Hines in the late '40s.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio19/joe_garland_b.htm (165 words)

	Lucky Millinder
		In 1934 Millinder took over the directorship of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, one of the early fl swing bands in the 1930s.
		Millender worked with Bill Doggett's band in 1938 after the Blue Rhythm Band dissolved, and then formed the Lucky Millinder Orchestra in 1940.
		The Millinder band was especially popular in Harlem as it gradually shifted away from swing and more toward early rhythm and blues.
	www.southernmusic.net /luckymillinder.htm (286 words)

	Mills Blue Rhythm Band - 1933-1934: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By 1933, the Mills Blue Rhythm Band was entering its prime period.
		On the third of Classics' five "complete" CDs by the orchestra, the music is excellent, except for four okay vocals by Chuck Richards [+].
		Such charts as "Ridin' In Rhythm," "Harlem After Midnight" (heard in two versions), "The Stuff Is Here (And It's Mellow)," "The Growl" and "Swingin' In E Flat" are quite enjoyable.
	www.music.com /release/1933-1934/1 (204 words)

	Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		This fine big band was originally formed by drummer Willie Lynch as the Blue Rhythm Band in 1930 and as the Coconut Grove Orchestra, provided backup to Louis Armstrong on some records.
		In 1931, Irving Mills became their manager and the group was renamed the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
		Lynch's departure later that year resulted in Baron Lee fronting the band until Lucky..
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		The character of Danae, daughter of Akrisios of Argos, mother of Perseus gave her name to the album Danae" (1997) by the italian band Gatto Marte There were two bands called Janus in the seventies, one from Italy and one from Germany.
		There have been several bands and albums named after the magician Merlin: Happy the Man from the US recorded a son called 'Merlin of the High Places' in 1976 which was finally released on 'Death's Crown' in 1999.
		There was a german band called Eulenspygel in the seventies and Ougenweide, another german band called their 1976 album ‘Eulenspiegel' Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles (1950) is a collection of linked short stories rather than as a novel.
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	CMT.com : Lawrence Lucie : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mostly a nonsoloing rhythm guitarist throughout his career, Lawrence Lucie was on many important recording sessions and had a lengthy playing career.
		Lucie performed with the orchestras of Duke Ellington (briefly in 1932), Benny Carter (1932-34), Fletcher Henderson (1934), the Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1934-36), back with Henderson (1936-39), Coleman Hawkins (1940) and Louis Armstrong (1940-44).
		With the end of the big band era, Lucie often worked in a quartet with his wife guitarist-singer Nora Lee King.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/lucie_lawrence/bio.jhtml (229 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : An Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Strictly speaking, "swing" designates a style of performance in which the emphasis falls on the offbeat.
		In the big band era, most popular ballrooms...
		This is a nice anthologie which is not typical for it features lsser known bands and lesser known songs.
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	Harry Edison - TheBestLinks.com - Jazz, 1999, 1915, Count Basie, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After stints with a number of bands, including the Mills Blue Rhythm Band and Lucky Millinder's, he played with Count Basie from 1937 to 1950.
		He appears in Jammin' the Blues, a famous short film of a jam session featuring Lester Young.
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	THE MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND
		A compelte chronological set starting from October 1933 and finishing when the band broke up in 1937.
		Taken as a whole, it's obvious that the Blue Rhythm Band is a far better ensemble than its reputation would indicate.
		Solos are first rate, and it displays admirable precision of ensemble work.
	www.worldsrecords.com /pages/artists/m/mills_blue_rhythm_band_the/the_mills_blue_rhythm_band_55241.html (93 words)

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	CDSS: American Dance Catalog
		This Wisconsin band's 2nd recording is meant for dancing and will enable you to have a dance in your own home - contras, reels, a quadrille, squares, circle dances, and a waltz.
		This NY contra dance band "..hews to the New England tradition, drawing from Celtic, French-Canadian and American sources..".
		KGB expands their musical horizons from a basis in playing for contras, bringing us music "let loose from contradance restrictions to be enjoyed off the dance floor".
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	THE VOCAL GROUP HARMONY WEB SITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Before forming his band in 1934, Tiny sang with Horace Henderson, drummed for Marion Hardy, the Savoy Bearcats, and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and sang for Luis Russell.
		His own band produced such saxophone stars as Sonny Stitt, Red Prysock, and Sil Austin.
		Among the vocalists to record with Tiny's band were Roy Brown, Arthur Prysock, Lonnie Johnson, and Tiny Kennedy.
	www.group-harmony.com /TheseThi.htm (161 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A good E or better condition is generally required for most items, both on the major labels of this time period (Victor, Columbia, Decca, Capitol, purple Bluebird, purple OKeh) as well as on the smaller labels and independents (Asch, Commodore, Blue Note, Keynote, Majestic, Musicraft, etc. etc.).
		Items which are E or better must also be free of rim chips, edge chips, lamination cracks, digs, label fade or defacement, and pressure-sensitive stickers on he labels.
		These can sell down to an E- condition due to their relative scarcity, and the fact that most were originally issued without sleeve liners.
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	Jazz Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		African rhythms and American jazz:music historians explore the African origins of jazz.
		Jammin' for the jackpot: big bands and early territory bands of the 1930's.
		Straighten up and fly right; rhythm and blues from the close of the swing era to the dawn of rock'n'roll.
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	Lester Boone
		Left Louis in March 1932, remained in New York, worked with Kaiser Marshall's Band and Billy Maples, then joined the Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1933).
		During 1934 with Eubie Blake's Orchestra and Willie Bryant, then a spell at Savoy, New York, with Hy Clark's Band.
		In 1940 led own band at Hollywood Club, New York a spell with Leon Abbey, then led own quartet at 44 Club, New York.
	www.alamhof.org /boonel.htm (170 words)

	Amazon.com: An Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955): Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I had never heard of Lucky Millinder when I bought this, nor The Mills Blue Rhythm Band, nor the Casa Loma Orchestra.
		The bands are certainly Big, but they sure aren't swinging.
		The sound is flat, flat, flat, as if the bands played at one end of a huge warehouse and the microphone was set up at the opposite end.
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	Amazon.co.uk: An Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955) [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ideal for weddings, corporate functions etc. Irish/Scottish band (does covers).
		Including bands in jazz, blues, motown, big band, soul, salsa.
		Even so, you'd have to go some to find a collection that so effectively captures the wide array of styles seen in big band music over the course of 25 years of popularity.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003N3T (338 words)

	Amazon.com -zShops: Keep The Rhythm Going (1935-1936) [Audio CD] Mills Blue Rhythm Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amazon.com -zShops: Keep The Rhythm Going (1935-1936) [Audio CD] Mills Blue Rhythm Band
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