Irving Mills

Irving Mills

Isadore Minsky

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In the collection

13 records
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Benny Goodman, 1950 In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra, 1955 The Golden Age Of Benny Goodman Benny Goodman And His Orchestra, 1955 The Best Of Bert Kaempfert Bert Kaempfert, 1968 It Takes A Whole Lot Of Human Feeling Carmen McRae, 1974 Black Widow Lalo Schifrin, 1976 The Paris Concert: Salle Pleyel, 1978 Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels Pedersen, 1979 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 1 Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, 1980 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 4 Benny Goodman / Lionel Hampton / Teddy Wilson / Gene Krupa / Charlie Christian, 1980 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 34 Erskine Hawkins / Charlie Barnet / Bud Freeman, 1981 The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 Duke Ellington, 1990 Unforgettable With Love Natalie Cole, 1991 21 Trombones Urbie Green

Played with

Duke Ellington 8 records together Benny Goodman 5 records together Mitchell Parish 5 records together Harry Carney 4 records together Edgar Sampson 4 records together George & Ira Gershwin 4 records together Lionel Hampton 3 records together Johnny Hodges 3 records together Hoagy Carmichael 3 records together Ziggy Elman 3 records together Gus Kahn 3 records together Neil Moret 3 records together

About

Ukranian-born American jazz music publisher, agent, orchestra leader, and lyricist. Born January 15, 1894 in Odessa, Odeska, Ukraine. Died April 21, 1985 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Father-in-law of composer Josef Myrow, grandfather of composer Fred Myrow and brother of Jack Mills.
Mills was born in the Russian Empire, which today is in the Ukraine, moving to New York City in 1896. He founded with his brother Jack in 1919. Between 1919 and 1965, when they sold Mills Music, Inc., they built and became the largest independent music publisher in the world.
As a music scout, Mills signed Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Mills is highly important in the history of jazz music because of his willingness to work with black musicians and publish their music. While Mills is mostly remembered for his business abilities, he more than dabbled in songwriting -- included among his works is the hit It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing.