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Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream
by Ken Dryden
Gretchen Parlato grew up in a musical household, the daughter of bassist/guitarist Dave Parlato (who worked with Don Ellis, Warne Marsh, Gil Melle and Frank Zappa, among others). She won the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition and released her debut CD on her own label the following year; In a Dream is her long awaited ...
Saxophonist Gil Melle Dies At 73
Gil Melle, the baritone saxophonist, composer, painter, and all around Renaissance man, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Malibu, California. He was 73 years old. Melle was born on the last day of 1931 in New York City and began painting and playing the saxophone at an early age. When only 19 ...
Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions
By Gil Melle
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: DISC 1:
1. Four Moons;
2. Gears;
3. Mars;
4. Sunset Concerto;
5. Cyclotron;
6. October;
7. Under Capricorn;
8. Venus;
9. Lover Man;
10. Spellbound;
11. Transition;
12. Lion Lives Here;
13. Timepiece;
14. Gingersnap;
15. Nearness of You;
16. Lullaby of Birdland;
17. Ballade For Guitar;
18. Metropolitan;
19. Newport News.
DISC 2:
1. Summertime;
2. Quadrille For Moderns;
3. Five Impressions of Color: Spectrum Violet / Sea Green / Royal; Blue / Ebony / Spectrum Red;
4. Life Begins at Midnight;
5. Night Train to Wildwood;
6. Threadneedle Street;
7. Weird Valley;
8. Set Break;
9. Moonlight in Vermont;
10. Long Ago and Far Away;
11. Arab Barber Blues;
12. Nice Questions.
Gil Melle: Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions
by John Sharpe
This wonderful 2-CD set by saxophonist Gil Melle is one of six titles released as part of Blue Note's new Connoisseur 10" series. The set consists of four 10" LPs and the one 12" LP (Patterns In Jazz) Gil recorded for the label. These extremely rare sessions contain a mix of straight bop, a number of ...
