Lincoln Mills
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(From left) Danny Settle, Slick Jones , Gene Sedric, Mary Lou Williams and Lincoln Mills, performing at The Place , New York, circa July 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Lincoln Mills was an American jazz trumpeter .
Mills began his career in dance bands in New York City and Philadelphia in 1929. Eugene Kennedy hired him to perform in the Arcadia Ballroom ; thereafter he worked with Cliff Jackson , Doc Hyder and Tiny Bradshaw and in Atlantic City with Bobby Lee. In the 1930s he played with Claude Hopkins and 1940 in the short-lived big band of Coleman Hawkins . He then became a member of Gene Sedric's band before disappearing from the music scene and dying in the late 1950s. Mills, who can also be heard on recordings by Red Allen , Benny Carter and Wilton Crawley , took part in 17 recording sessions between 1934 and 1947.
Web links
- Eugene Chadbourne : Lincoln Mills on Allmusic (English)
- Lincoln Mills at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mills, Lincoln |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |