Joe Garland
Joseph Copeland Garland( August 15, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia – April 21, 1977, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing" In the Mood".
Garland studied music at Shaw University and the Aeolian Conservatory.
He started by playing classical music but joined a jazz band, Graham Jackson's Seminole Syncopators, in 1924, where he first recorded.
He had a long run of associations as a sideman on saxophone and clarinet, with Elmer Snowden( 1925), Joe Steele, Henri Saparo, Leon Abbey( including a tour of South America), Charlie Skeete and Jelly Roll Morton in the 1920s.
The 1930s saw him playing with Bobby Neal( 1931) and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band; he was both a performer and an arranger for the Blue Rhythm Band from 1932 to 1936, when Lucky Millinder replaced him.
Following this he played with Edgar Hayes( 1937), Don Redman( 1938), and Louis Armstrong( 1939 – 42).
In the 1940s he played with Claude Hopkins and others, and then returned to Armstrong's band from 1945- 47.
Following this he played with Herbie Fields, Hopkins again, and Earl Hines( 1948).
In the 1950s, he went into semi-retirement.
Garland wrote a number of well- known swing jazz hits, including" Serenade To A Savage" for Artie Shaw( one of Shaw's gold records) and" Leap Frog" for bandleader Les Brown.
Joe had a Daughter named Joanne Garland- Tyler born October 27, 1943 she moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in the late 60's.
Cayucas
Cayucas, previously Oregon Bike Trails, is an American indie pop band from Santa Monica, California.
The group includes Zach Yudin and his twin brother Ben Yudin on guitar.
The band signed to Secretly Canadian in 2012.
Rhythm band
The rhythm band is one of the primary methods of introducing children to playing music.
Children are given maracas, tambourines, bells, rhythm sticks and other idiophones with which to beat out a simple rhythm while the teacher plays a song, usually on the piano.
Alternatively, the teacher does not play a melody but also a rhythm instrument, so that only rhythms are played.
Children can also make a rhythm band" just for fun" for themselves, without a teacher.
Rhythm bands are usually found in nursery schools or kindergartens, but of course children also can make a rhythm band at home.
Melodic instruments are introduced to the children in the first or second year of regular school.
But in principle, a rhythm band can be made in every age, with more difficult rhythms if the participants are older.
If the participants like very loud music, noisemakers like the pea whistle, the recorder head joint, the vuvuzela or the ratchet can be included into the rhythm band, as well as other very loud rhythm instruments like the snare drum.
It is not uncommon for adult musical organizations to employ numerous rhythm players, as in Latin American music, or to distribute rhythm instruments for audience members to accompany a live performance.
Wardell Jones
Wardell" Preacher" Jones( b. ca. 1905) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Jones played early in his career in New York City in the ballroom bands of Bill Brown and Benny Carter before joining Bingie Madison's ensemble.
Jones joined the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, playing with the group from 1930 to 1936 and recording with them several times.
In addition to trumpet, he occasionally played trombone with the group and did arranging work.
Later in the 1930s he played with Fats Waller and Hot Lips Page, but appears to have left music after 1940.
Eli Robinson
Eli Robinson( June 23, 1908 – December 24, 1972) was a jazz trombonist and arranger.
After working in Cincinnati in bands led by Speed Webb and Zack Whyte, as well as McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and making his first recordings in 1935 with Blanche Calloway.
In 1936, he moved to New York City, where he was a member of the Teddy Hill and Willie Bryant big bands and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
Three years later he played with Roy Eldridge and joined the big band of Lucky Millinder.
Beginning in 1941, he spent several years as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra.
He returned to working with Millinder, then joined Buddy Tate in 1954.
Robinson never recorded as a leader.
George Washington (trombonist)
George Washington( born 1910) was an American jazz trombonist.
Washington was born in Brunswick, Georgia and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.
He began playing trombone at age ten and attended Edward Waters College in the early 1920s.
He relocated to Philadelphia in 1925 and played with J.W. Pepper before moving to New York City shortly thereafter.
In New York, Washington studied under Walter Damrosch at the New York Conservatory, playing with various ensembles in the late 1920s.
In 1931 he began playing with Don Redman, and gigged with Benny Carter in 1932 and Spike Hughes in 1933.
In the mid-1930s he played and arranged for the Mills Blue Rhythm Band and worked with Red Allen and Fletcher Henderson.
From 1937 to 1943 he played in Louis Armstrong's orchestra.
After his tenure with Armstrong he moved to the West Coast, and played with Horace Henderson, Carter again, and Count Basie.
From 1947 he led his own ensemble, playing in California and Las Vegas.
He and drummer Johnny Otis collaborated often, and in 1960 Washington worked with Joe Darensbourg.
He did freelance work as a player and arranger later in his life.
Gunther Schuller wrote of him:
George Washington is another one of the many gifted lesser- known musicians jazz has produced.
While not a path- breaking major figure, Washington was a consistently inventive soloist whose fine work can be heard not only with the Blue Rhythm Band but with Armstrong's late 1930s' band and Count Basie.
The range of his talent can be assessed on, for example," Kokey Joe"( hot and growly, rangey) or" Harlem After Midnight".
Washington should not be confused with any of several other musicians named George Washington, including a bassist who played with John Lee Hooker.
DracoVirgo
DracoVirgo is a Japanese band, and formed in 2017.
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
The Mills Blue Rhythm Band was an American big band of the 1930s.
The band was formed in Harlem in 1930, with reedman Bingie Madison the first of its many leaders.
It started life as the Coconut Grove Orchestra, changing to Mills Blue Rhythm Band when Irving Mills became its manager in 1931.
At various times the group was known as the "Blue Rhythm BandBlue Ribbon BandBlue Rhythm BoysThe Blue RacketeersEarl Jackson's Musical ChampionsEarl Jackson and his OrchestraDuke Wilson and his Ten BlackberriesKing Carter's Royal OrchestraMills Music MastersHarlem Hot Shots" and uncredited playing behind Louis Armstrong.
The Mills Blue Rhythm Band were based at The Cotton Club in Manhattan.
They worked steadily through the 1930s deputizing for the Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway Orchestras; often taking their undesirable engagements.
Violinist Carroll Dickerson briefly fronted the band, followed by Drummer Willie Lynch in 1931 and then compere Jimmy Ferguson (Baron Lee).
Edgar Hayes, Eddie Mallory and Dave Nelson all had temporary stints as band leader until Lucky Millinder permanently took over the role in 1934.
The band recorded 150 sides for a variety of labels including Brunswick, Columbia, Victor, the ARC stable of labels (including Oriole, Perfect, Regal, Romeo, Banner, Melotone, Domino), Variety, and Vocalion.
Despite success with a few hit records (including "Truckin'" and "Ride, Red, Ride") and a strong lineup of talented soloists, the group never attained the prominence of their peers.
This is often attributed to the lack of a single identifiable leader, and Irving Mills' preference to have the band perform an understudy role.
The group disbanded in 1938.
Millinder joined Bill Doggett's band before reforming it into his own orchestra in 1940
Irving Mills revived the Mills Blue Rhythm Band name for two recording sessions in 1947 under the guidance of Van Alexander.
The only original band member at either of the 1947 sessions was trumpeter Charlie Shavers.
O'Neill Spencer
William" O' Neill" Spencer( November 25, 1909 – July 24, 1944) was a jazz drummer and singer.
He is most known for his work in the John Kirby Sextet.
He began with work for Al Sears and from 1931 to 1936 he worked with the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
He joined Kirby's group in 1937, but had to leave for a time in 1941 due to tuberculosis.
He rejoined in 1942 staying until 1943, but died soon after from the disease.
Elmer James
Elmer Taylor James( 1910, Yonkers, New York- July 25, 1954, New York City) was an American jazz double- bassist and tubist.
James primarily played tuba early in his career, including with Gene Rodgers, June Clark, and Chick Webb in the late 1920s.
He worked with Webb until 1933, including on recordings with Louis Armstrong.
Around 1933 he switched to bass and continued working with Webb, as well as with Benny Carter, Bob Howard, Buster Bailey, Fletcher Henderson, and Red Allen.
From 1934 to 1936 he played with the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and later in the decade with Edgar Hayes, Mezz Mezzrow, Jabbo Smith, and Tommy Ladnier.
He worked with Claude Hopkins and Zutty Singleton in the early 1940s, but stopped performing and recording after about 1943.

Question: Are both Cayucas and Mills Blue Rhythm Band from the same country?
Answer: yes