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John Mills (Assistant Professor of Jazz Composition/Jazz Saxophone, University of Texas) has long been one of central Texas' most in-demand saxophonists, arrangers, and composers. His interests and experience cover a wide spectrum of musical styles, which he pursues both in concert and in the recording studio. During his diverse professional career he has performed, arranged, and composed for a vast number of CD's, film/TV soundtracks, and jingles. John has been an integral part of Austin's jazz community since the 1970's, as a key member of such long-running groups as the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Beto and the Fairlanes, the Tony Campise Band, and the Concept Orchestra. He has ... had the good fortune to share the stage with such diverse artists as Kenny Wheeler, Carla Bley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lyle Lovett, and Willie Nelson. John Mills' new CD on 482 Records, Courage: "The Way Out Is Via The Door", teams him with legendary jazz bassist Steve Swallow, drummer Chris Massey and revered poet Robert Creeley.
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Florence (Richardson) Heming wrote that her grandfather, John Mills, was a farmhand or hired hand. On Emily's marriage license her father's occupation was listed as horse-keeper. Florence wrote that her mother Emily had told her that the 10 children of John and Polly Mills were born two years apart from each other. She listed them, in order, as Emily the oldest, Harry, Rose, Herbert, Bertha, John, Agnes and Walter the youngest. The remaining two, Alfred and Allen, she did not place in birth order. Aunt Flo said that when the Richardsons returned to England from Australia and Africa in 1897 that Grandma Mills, who was an invalid, and Grandpa Mills, lived with them at Tilbury Road.
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Regarded as one of Britain’s finest concert guitarists, and a performer of international repute, John Mills began learning the instrument at the age of nine. He subsequently studied with John Williams at the Royal College of Music, London, and with Julian Bream and Andrés Segovia, in master-classes in England and Spain respectively. Segovia later commented that Mr Mills playing "had purity of technique and musical sensitivity".
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John Mills is currently the Vice President responsible for Content and Forecast Operations with Pelmorex Inc., The Weather Network. From 1993 to 2004 he served as the Regional Director General, Ontario Region, at Environment Canada and was responsible for the design and delivery of Environment Canada's programs in the province, including environmental conservation, environmental protection and weather services. He was the Canadian lead for the Great Lakes Program, negotiating, in 1995 and 2002, the Canada-Ontario Agreement Respecting the Great Lakes. He has ... served as co-chair of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board of the International Joint Commission.
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John Mills is currently Coordinator of Guitar Studies at the Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting lecturer at Christ Church College, Canterbury. He is an Associate of both the R.C.M. and R.A.M., and is a Fellow of the City of Leeds College of Music.
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John MILLS was born 1688/9 probably in England. He came as a young man to Philadelphia where he engaged in the lumber business with Richard Harrold before settling in Maryland. In 1730 he was described as John Mills of "Manoquisy near ye River Potomac" on the marriage certificate of his son Thomas who married to Elizabeth Harrold, a daughter of Richard Harrold. In 1731 he witnessed a marriage at the home of Josiah Ballinger at "Monoguisie Province of Maryland." He owned 1315 acres in what is now Berkeley Co., WV described as being "on a branch of Opeckon, near but not adjoining Lewis DeMoss' land." In 1743 he deeded land to sons Thomas, Hur, Henry and John Jr. recorded in Frederick Co., VA. In 1757, he was visited by William Reckitt during the French and Indian War.
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