The Blue Note Years 1952-1956 (5 LPs on Live Broadcast

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Saxophonist Gil Mellé was the first white musician signed to Blue Note records. Collected here on a double CD are four albums he made for the label, playing tenor and baritone in a variety of small combo line-ups among the sidemen Eddie Bert, Urbie Green, Tal Farlow, Don Butterfield, Lou Mecca and Oscar Pettiford. Mellé was serious about composition and wrote all the music for these sessions. He later largely abandoned jazz, becoming among other things a respected artist and sculptor, electronic music pioneer and film score composer. As an extra this set also contains a previously unreleased broadcast of Mellé s quartet from Cafe Bohemia, New York in 1957