[78-L] OT: Fred Mills, former trumpeter with Canadian Brass dies

[David Lennick]

Sorry to hear this. I don't think anybody in the Canadian Brass is old enough 
to have made 78s but they certainly played a lot of music from that era, like 
Fats Waller pieces and ragtime classics.

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Sammy Jones wrote:
> I just heard from a friend on the faculty of the University of Georgia Hugh
> Hodgson School of Music that trumpeter Fred Mills was killed in a car
> accident today in Athens.  He had just returned from a trip to Italy.
> 
> I don't know that Fred ever made any 78s, but he was a long-time trumpeter
> with the Canadian Brass, and for the past several years was a professor of
> trumpet at the University of Georgia.
> 
> Sammy Jones
>