Gil Mellé – The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions

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Label:	Blue Note – 7243 4 95718 2 2, Blue Note – 95718
Series:	Connoisseur 10" Series
Format:	2 x CD, Compilation, Limited Edition, Mono
Country:	US
Released:	1998
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Bop, Cool Jazz

Tracklist

1-1	Four Moons	2:23
1-2	The Gears	3:06
1-3	Mars	2:46
1-4	Sunset Concerto	2:03
1-5	Cyclotron	3:13
1-6	October	3:41
1-7	Under Capricorn	2:58
1-8	Venus	3:40
1-9	Lover Man Written-By – Ram Ramirez*	5:55
1-10	Spellbound Written-By – Miklos Rozas*	3:18
1-11	Transition	5:12
1-12	A Lion Lives Here	3:50
1-13	Timepiece	3:10
1-14	Gingersnap	3:17
1-15	The Nearness Of You Written-By – H. Carmichael, N. Washington	4:17
1-16	Lullaby Of Birdland Written-By – George Shearing	3:46
1-17	Ballade For Guitar	3:53
1-18	Metropolitan	2:50
1-19	Newport News	4:55
2-1	Summertime Written-By – D. Heyward, G. Gershwin	3:59
2-2	Quadrille For Moderns	3:31
	Five Impressions Of Color	(12:37)
2-3.1	Spectrum Violet
2-3.2	Sea Green
2-3.3	Royal Blue
2-3.4	Ebony
2-3.5	Spectrum Red
2-4	Life Begins At Midnight	4:24
2-5	Night Train To Wildwood	4:10
2-6	Threadneedle Street	4:15
2-7	Weird Valley	5:13
2-8	The Set Break	4:48
2-9	Moonlight In Vermont Written-By – J. Blackburn, K. Suessodorf	4:52
2-10	Long Ago And Far Away Written-By – I. Gershwin, J. Kern	4:32
2-11	The Arab Barber Blues	9:05
2-12	Nice Questions	8:17

Companies, etc.

Copyright © – Capitol Records, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Capitol Records, Inc.
Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Glass Mastered At – EMI MFG.

Credits

Baritone Saxophone – Gil Mellé (tracks: 1-12, 1-13, 1-15, 2-1 to 2-14)
Bass – Bill Phillips (tracks: 1-16 to 1-19, 2-1 to 2-6), Clyde Lombardi (tracks: 1-5 to 1-15), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 2-7 to 2-12), Red Mitchell (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Drums – Ed Thigpen (tracks: 2-7 to 2-12), Joe Morello (tracks: 1-5 to 1-15), Max Roach (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4), Vinnie Thomas (tracks: 1-16 to 1-19, 2-1 to 2-6)
Guitar – Joe Cinderella (tracks: 2-7 to 2-12), Lou Mecca (tracks: 1-16 to 1-19, 2-1 to 2-6), Tal Farlow (tracks: 1-5 to 1-15)
Liner Notes – Gil Mellé
Mastered By [Using 20-bit Super Bit Mapping] – Ron McMaster
Photography By [Booklet p.3] – Jack Lind
Photography By [Front Cover] – Bill Hughes (5)
Photography By [Traycard, Booklet p.12] – Francis Wolff
Piano – George Wallington (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Producer – Alfred Lion (tracks: 1-5 to 1-19, 2-1 to 2-12), Gil Mellé (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Reissue Producer – Michael Cuscuna
Tenor Saxophone – Gil Mellé (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 1-14)
Trombone – Eddie Bert (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8, 2-7 to 2-10), Urbie Green (tracks: 1-9 to 1-15)
Tuba – Don Butterfield (tracks: 2-3 to 2-6)
Vibraphone – Joe Manning (2) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Vocals – Monica Dell (tracks: 1-2 to 1-4)
Written-By – Gil Mellé (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8, 1-11 to 1-14, 1-17 to 1-19, 2-2 to 2-8, 2-11, 2-12)

Notes

In clear tray 2CD jewel case with a 12-page booklet and obi.
Obi reads: This CD contains all of Gil Mellé's classic Blue Note material on two CDs taken from four 10" and one 12" LP.
Traycard reads: Five 10" LPs on Two CDs.

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between 1952 and '56.
1-1 to 1-4: recorded March 2, 1952.
1-5 to 1-8: recorded January 31, 1953.
1-9 to 1-15: recorded October 25, 1953.
1-16 to 1-19, 2-1, 2-2: recorded August 5, 1954.
2-3 to 2-6: recorded February 27, 1955.
2-7 to 2-12: recorded April 1, 1956.

1-1 to 1-8: previously released on Gil Mellé Quintet / Gil Mellé Sextet - Gil Mellé Quintet / Sextet
1-9 to 1-14: previously released on Gil Mellé Quintet With Urbie Green And Tal Farlow - Volume 2
1-15: previously unreleased.
1-16 to 1-19, 2-1, 2-2: previously released on The Gil Melle Quartet Featuring Lou Mecca - The Gil Mellé Quartet Volume 3
2-3 to 2-6: previously released on Gil Mellé Quintet With Don Butterfield - 5 Impressions Of Color
2-7 to 2-12: previously released on Gil Mellé - Patterns In Jazz

Caption for uncredited photo on page 9 of booklet: Gil Mellé playing the worlds first drum machine, Percussotron III, in 1969 - for the "Andromeda Strain" (Michael Crichton) film score. It was designed and built by Mellé as well as two earlier versions in 1965.

Cat. No. on front cover and back of obi: 95718.
Cat. No. on traycard back and spines and obi spine: 7243 4 95718 2 2.

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