Gil Melle

Gil Melle
Born: Dec 31, 1931 in New York, NY
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Died: Oct 28, 2004 in Malibu, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Cool, Hard Bop, Film Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream
Biography: A true renaissance man, Gil Melle began his career as a post-bop baritone saxophonist who also composed and painted, later branching out into a wide variety of artistic and scientific fields. He abandoned jazz fairly early on in his career, choosing to compose a number of film and television scores and ...Read full biography
Patterns in Jazz
Released: 1956
Label: Blue Note Japan
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Like the modern art that stormed the art world in the '50s, Patterns in Jazz, Gil Melle's debut album for Blue Note, is filled with bright, bold colors and identifiable patterns that camouflage how adventurous ...Read full review
Mindscapes
Released: 1991
Label: Capitol
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In his return to Blue Note after an absence of over three decades, Melle made no bones about the fact that he had left jazz far behind. This is a CD of abstract and impressionistic electronic compositions, ...Read full review
More Gil Melle albums: Main Albums (11), Compilations (4)
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