Leaving school at 15 and joining The Nat Allan Band at The Palais in Ilford, London as a drummer Ross played at many of the Mecca dance halls all over the UK doing many TV and Radio broadcasts. Leaving Nat Allan after a year he joined The Sid Phillips Band (famous for their Dixieland Style) and remained there for two years, again doing many broadcast and UK tours, ROSS MITCHELL formed his own trio at the age of eighteen and during the next twenty five years worked in many British dance halls with the band steadily increasing in size. Read more on Last.fm