Release Date: 20 April 2018
Label: Retrieval
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917908428
Genres: Jazz Swing Jazz
Description
The album 'Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang 1930 plus some Whoopee Makers' contains restored and remastered jazz music from 1929 and 1930.
Irving Mills was a jazz publisher who also went by the name of Joe Primrose, and, together with his brother Jack, was also owner of Mills Music. When the brothers sold Mills Music, the company had grown into the biggest independent music publisher worldwide. But Mills was not only a publisher, he also was a singer, lyricist, song writer, responsible for artists and repertoire and in addition also managed numerous bands, including Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Mills Blue Rhythm Band as well as, between 1926 and 1939, the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Irving decided to put together his own band for studio recordings. Among Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang were Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Arnold Brillhardt, Arthur Schutt and Manny Klein. The recordings of the Hotsy Totsy Gang that were made between 1929 and 1930 boast some of the best jazz musicians of their time, often with spectacular results. Sometimes Mills sang on those recordings, other times he merely arranged recording dates and selected musicians.
Tracklisting
Various Artists
Oliver Naylor
Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang
The Kit-Cat Band
Various Artists
Various Artists
Philip Lewis
Johnny de Droit and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
