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Jackie Mills

 


Jazz drummer, session musician, songwriter, music publishing company owner, record producer, recording studio owner, record label owner, cartoon, television and film music composer and arranger Jackie Mills was born in New York City on 11 March 1922. He was a child prodigy who first learned how to play guitar, then switched to drumming when he was just ten years old. 


By the 1940s he was playing in the big swing orchestras including Charlie Barnet, Jazz At the Philharmonic, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and with André Previn, Woody Herman, Stan Getz and Lionel Hampton. At the same time through the 40s and 50s he had regular work as a session musician. In the 60s he was part of Jimmy McGriff's trio, then in the 70s he switched into production work, producing recording sessions for Columbia, MGM, Liberty and other record labels. He also nurtured new talent, including Janis Joplin and Irene Kral. He acquired the Larrabee Sound Studios from its founders, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, running them until his son took over on his retirement by the late 1980s.

Jackie Mills died in Beaumont, California, on 22 March 2010.


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