Let (A, m) be a noetherian local ring with maximal ideal m and infinite residue field k = A/m. Let J be an m-primary ideal, I 1 , . . . , I s ideals of A, and M a finitely generated A-module. In this paper, we interpret mixed multiplicities of (I 1 , . . . , I s , J) with respect to M as multiplicities of joint reductions of them. This generalizes the Rees's theorem on mixed multiplicity [12, Theorem 2.4]. As an application we show that mixed multiplicities are also multiplicities of Rees's superficial sequences.