The Mills Blue Rhythm Band was an American big band active during the 1930s. The band was formed in New York City in 1930 by drummer Willie Lynch as the...
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Other popular versions in 1935/36 were by Benny Goodman and by Mills Blue Rhythm Band. The opening notes of the song's melody resemble Gershwin's 1926...
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named after William Mills Mills Brothers, an African-American jazz and pop vocal group Mills Blue Rhythm Band, an American big band This disambiguation...
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The riff had appeared in a 1935 recording by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band entitled "There's Rhythm in Harlem", which had been composed and arranged by...
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Billy Kyle (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
later the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. In 1938, he joined John Kirby's sextet, but was drafted in 1942. After the war, he worked with Kirby's band briefly and...
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Tab Smith (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
rhythm and blues alto saxophonist. He is best remembered for the tracks "Because of You" and "Pretend". He worked with Count Basie, the Mills Rhythm Boys...
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J. C. Higginbotham (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
premier swing bands, including Luis Russell's, Benny Carter's, Red Allen's, Chick Webb's, Fletcher Henderson's, and Mills Blue Rhythm Band. He also played...
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Charlie Shavers (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
biographies still list this date. Shavers's arrangements and solos helped make the band one of the most commercially successful and imitated of its day. In 1937...
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Joe Garland (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
with Bobby Neal (1931) and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band; he was both a performer and an arranger for the Blue Rhythm Band from 1932 to 1936, when Lucky Millinder...
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Lucky Millinder (category Mills Blue Rhythm Band members)
a band to Europe, playing residencies in Monte Carlo and Paris. He returned to New York to take over the leadership of the Mills Blue Rhythm Band in...
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