Irving Mills (January 161894-April 211985) was a jazz music publisher. Mills was born in New York City. He founded Mills Music 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. Wikipedia
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