Gil Melle Catalog

1952 (age 21)

Gil Melle Quintet/Gil Melle Sextet  (Blue Note (J) K18P-9275)

Eddie Bert, trombone; Gil Melle, tenor sax; Joe Manning, vibes; George Wallington, piano; Red Mitchell, bass; Max Roach, drums; Monica Dell, vocals #2-4.

1. BN461-3 (tk.4)	Four Moons
2. BN462-3 (tk.8)	The Gears
3. BN463-0 (tk.9)	Mars
4. BN464-0 (tk.10)	Sunset Concerto

Eddie Bert as X. Kentonite, trombone; Gil Melle, tenor sax; Tal Farlow, guitar; Clyde Lombardi, bass; Joe Morello, drums.

BN465-4 tk.5	Cyclotron
BN466-2 tk.8	October
BN467-0 tk.10	Under Capricorn
BN468-0 tk.13	Venus

Urbie Green, trombone; Gil Melle, tenor, baritone sax; Tal Farlow, guitar; Clyde Lombardi, bass; Joe Morello, drums.

BN526-2 tk.3	Lover Man
BN528-2 tk.11	Spellbound
BN529-1 tk.14	Transition
BN530-1 tk.16	A Lion Lives Here
BN531-2 tk.19	Timepiece
BN527-5 tk.23	Gingersnap

** same contents as Blue Note BLP 5020 + BLP 5033.

1953

Gil Melle - The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions  (Blue Note 7243 4 95718 2 2)

Urbie Green, trombone; Gil Melle, tenor, baritone sax; Tal Farlow, guitar; Clyde Lombardi, bass; Joe Morello, drums.

BN532-0 tk.27

The Nearness Of You

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Lou Mecca, guitar; Billy Phillips, bass; Vinnie Thomas, drums.

tk.4	Lullaby Of Birdland
tk.8	Ballade For Guitar
tk.10	Metropolitan
tk.18	Newport News
tk.19	Quadrille For Moderns
tk.20	Summertime

Don Butterfield, tuba; Gil Melle, baritone sax; Lou Mecca, guitar; Billy Phillips, bass; Vinnie Thomas, drums.

tk.1	Five Impressions Of Color: I. Spectrum Violet / II. Sea Green / III. Royal Blue / IV. Ebony / V. Spectrum Red
tk.5	Life Begins At Midnight
tk.7	Threadneedle Street
tk.9	Night Train To Wildwood

** same contents as Blue Note BLP 5020 + BLP 5033 + BLP 5054 + BLP 5063 + BLP 1517 + 1 bonus track.

1956

Gil Melle - Patterns In Jazz  (Blue Note BLP 1517)

Eddie Bert, trombone #1-4; Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Ed Thigpen, drums.

1. tk.5	Weird Valley
2. tk.10	The Set Break
3. tk.11	Moonlight In Vermont
4. tk.12	Long Ago And Far Away
5. tk.13	The Arab Barber Blues
6. tk.14	Nice Question

** part of Blue Note 7243 4 95718 2 2.

Melle Plays Primitive Modern  (Prestige PRLP 7040)

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; Billy Phillips, bass; Edmond Thigpen, drums.

877	Adventure Swing
878	Mark One
879	Dedicatory Piece To The Geo-Physical Year Of 1957

same personnel.

908	Dominica
909	Ballet Time
910	Iron Works

** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC-1712 entitled "Gil Melle Quartet - Melle Plays Primitive Modern".
** part of Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1712-2.

Gil Melle Quartet - Gil's Guests  (Prestige PRLP 7063)

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; Vinnie Burke, bass; Edmond Thigpen, drums; + Art Farmer, trumpet; Julius Watkins, French horn; Hal McKusick, alto sax, flute.

955	Block Island
956	Tomorrow
957	Soudan

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; Vinnie Burke, bass; Edmond Thigpen, drums; + Kenny Dorham, trumpet; Don Butterfield, tuba; Hal McKusick, alto sax.

966	Still Life
967	Sixpence
968	Ghengis

** also issued on Original Jazz Classics OJC-1753, OJCCD-1753-2.

Gil Melle Quartet - Gil's Guests  (Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1753-2)

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; George Duvivier, bass; Shadow Wilson, drums; + Art Farmer, trumpet; Hal McKusick, alto sax; Seldon Powell, tenor sax; Teddy Charles, vibes.

1058	Funk For Star People
1059	Golden Age
1060	Herbie

** reissue of Prestige PRLP 7063 + 3 bonus tracks.

1957

Gil Melle Quartet - Quadrama  (Prestige PRLP 7097)

Gil Melle, baritone sax; Joe Cinderella, guitar; George Duvivier, bass; Shadow Wilson, drums.

1218	Walter Ego
1219	Jacqueline
1220	It Don't Mean A Thing
1221	Full House
1222	Quadrama
1223	In A Sentimental Mood
1224	Rush Hour In Hong Kong

** part of Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-1712-2.

1968 (age 37)

Gil Melle - Tome VI  (Verve V/V6-8744)

Gil Melle, soprano sax, Tome VI, Effects Generator; Forrest Westbrook, piano, Electar; Benfaral Matthews, bass, cello, Envelope; Fred C. Stofflet, percussion, Doomsday Machine.

104256	Blue Quasar
104257	Man With The Flashlight
104258	Elgin Marble
104259	Jog Falls Spinning Song

1970

Gil Melle - Waterbirds  (Nocturne NRS-702)

Gil Melle, soprano sax, composer, orchestrator, special electronic musical instruments; Pete Robinson, Fender piano #4,6,7; Joe Cinderella, guitar #1; Art Johnson, guitar #2,3,5; Dave Parlato, Fender bass #2-7; Fred C. Stofflet, drums.

1.	Waterbirds (Pt. 1)
2.	Waterbirds (Pt. 2)
3.	Walkin' Down The Gloomy Streets...Alone...Broke...Depressed...Gonna Kill Myself Blues
4.	Little Big Horn
5.	The Love Song
6.	My Sweet Charlie
7.	Charlie Chaplin

** also issued on Jazz Chronicles JCS-702.

1971 (age 40)

Gil Melle - The Andromeda Strain (Original Electronic Soundtrack)  (Kapp KRS-5513)

Gil Melle, producer, composer, arranger.

	Wildfire
	Hex
	Andromeda
	Desert Trip
	The Piedmont Elegy
	Op
	Xenogenesis
	Strobe Crystal Green

1988 (age 57)

Gil Melle - Mindscape  (Blue Note B1-92168)

Gil Melle, composer, electro orchestrator, programs, all instruments, producer.

	Mindscape
	Double Exposure
	Message From Mozambique
	Shadow And Substance: Vintage Autumn / Experiment Perilous / Zero In The Universe
	Bird Of Paradise
	The Blue Lion
	Neon Canyons
	Swamp Girl

** also issued on Blue Note CDP 7 92168 2.

Gil Melle - Mindscape  (Blue Note CDP 7 92168 2)

Gil Melle, composer, electro orchestrator, programs, all instruments, producer.: same session.

	Anti-Gravitational
	The Richest Man In Bogota

** reissue of Blue Note B1-92168 + 2 bonus tracks.