McMillion, Dan K.

Américain. Né à Mount Hope. Etudes : tp (à 13 ans). Expérience : Joe Williams, Peggy Lee, Carmen McRae, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, son orch. (en Floride). Double tp, fgh, mello, vtb, btp. A joué la tp Flip Oakes’ Wild Thing, l’emb. GR (‘Groovin’ High’). Disciple de Maynard Ferguson.

Enregistrements

sous son nom (1995, Blown Away, Bojangles Prod. ; 2004, Give It One). George Olsen & his Music (au sax) ; Gus Arnheim (1930, voc : ‘All I Want Is Just One Girl’, Victor). Films Swing High, Swing Low (Trompette Blues) (Paramount, 1937: ‘Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray as a couple whose musical act consists of he trumpet playing and she talk-singing some « hot » songs’) ; Champagne Waltz de A. Edward Sutherland (1937, ‘The headliner is Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray) playing the trumpet’). Hallé Orch. (févr 2006, BBC : Chostakovitch, Concerto no1, Alexander Melnikov, p, dir. Cristian Mandeal).

Vidéos

Grammy Nominated Orch.( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEPn2cAhHyo) ; ‘Perdido’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7omaOQcacU). Jack Benny TV Show (17 oct 1954 : Tony Martin, cl, Fred MacMurray, ts, Dick Powell, fgh, Dan Dailey, dm, Kirk Douglas, bj; ‘Basin Street/Bye Bye Blues’, http://archive.org/details/JackBennyProgramSeason7Episode8TalentShow_900). Chetham’s School 1996-7 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIok1BJ8lDw).