Office (Primary):
512-471-2618
MRH 5.134

UT Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Music
1 University Station, E3100
Austin, TX 78712-0435

Email:
johnmills@mail.utexas.edu

Dr. John Mills 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 also 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.

He is an active educator, clinician and adjudicator. While Director of Jazz
Studies at Southwest Texas State University, his students won three Downbeat
Magazine awards, and he designed a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies.
Some of his former studetns have toured with the jazz orchestras of Ray
Charles, Harry Connick Jr., and Maynard Ferguson.

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. This unique project showcases John’s compositions
as well as his improvisations on saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, and
textural
keyboards. Mills’ newest project band is his Mystery-tet, which plays
compelling and original high-energy jazz.