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...

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...

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...

named after William Mills Mills Brothers, an African-American jazz and pop vocal group Mills Blue Rhythm Band, an American big band This disambiguation...

in which he stayed until 1934. He played with Lucky Millinder's Mills Blue Rhythm Band from 1934 to 1937, when he returned to Russell for three more years...

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...

with other artists. In 1934 and 1935, Bailey was playing with the Mills Blue Rhythm Band and, in 1937, he was a session player for Midge Williams and Her...

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...

2 658 James P. Johnson 1921–28 659 Duke Ellington 1935-36 660 Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1931 661 Tiny Parham 1926–29 662 Willie "The Lion" Smith 1925–37...

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...