Irving Mills

Irving Mills

Isadore Minsky

On 19 records in 3 Record Tribe collections

Credited on

Unforgettable With LoveNatalie Cole, 1991Words By, Music By The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941Duke Ellington, 1990Written-By Shoes Of The Fisherman’s WifeCharles Mingus, 1988Written-By Big Band Jazz (From The Beginnings To The Fifties)Various, 1983Lyrics By, Music By InvitationJaco Pastorius, 1983Composed By I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 34Erskine Hawkins / Charlie Barnet / Bud Freeman, 1981Written-By I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 4Benny Goodman / Lionel Hampton / Teddy Wilson / Gene Krupa / Charlie Christian, 1980Written-By I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 1Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, 1980Written-By Night PassageWeather Report, 1980Written-By The Paris Concert: Salle Pleyel, 1978Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels Pedersen, 1979Written-By Black WidowLalo Schifrin, 1976Written-By It Takes A Whole Lot Of Human FeelingCarmen McRae, 1974Written-By The Best Of Bert KaempfertBert Kaempfert, 1968Written-By Duke Ellington & John ColtraneDuke Ellington & John Coltrane, 1963Written-By The Nat King Cole StoryNat King Cole, 1961Written-By The Golden Age Of Benny GoodmanBenny Goodman And His Orchestra, 1955Written-By In The Wee Small HoursFrank Sinatra, 1955Written-By The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz ConcertBenny Goodman, 1950Written-By 21 TrombonesUrbie GreenWritten-By

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.