Gil Melle

[Gheorghe]

51 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

What film is this?

It is "Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz" from 1997, that´s about the time I saw it and recorded it on VHS.

[mjzee]

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

It is "Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz" from 1997, that´s about the time I saw it and recorded it on VHS.

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Note-Story-Modern-Jazz/dp/B0012K53U4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DMJ7INS50FVT&keywords=blue+note+a+story+of+modern+jazz+dvd&qid=1660143953&sprefix=blue+note+a+story+of+modern+jazz+dvd%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

Worth seeing.  It's 91 minutes on DVD.  Originally broadcast on TV in two one-hour segments, so there was a little editing for the DVD version.  Yes, Gil Melle is all over it - very articulate.  He was the one who brought together Alfred and Rudy.

[sidewinder]

I have that one on DVD. From my recollection Melle is filmed surrounded by some of his vintage car collection.

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, mjzee said:

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Note-Story-Modern-Jazz/dp/B0012K53U4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DMJ7INS50FVT&keywords=blue+note+a+story+of+modern+jazz+dvd&qid=1660143953&sprefix=blue+note+a+story+of+modern+jazz+dvd%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

Worth seeing.  It's 91 minutes on DVD.  Originally broadcast on TV in two one-hour segments, so there was a little editing for the DVD version.  Yes, Gil Melle is all over it - very articulate.  He was the one who brought together Alfred and Rudy.

Oh, I didn´t know he had brought Alfred and Rudy together. Maybe, this is the reason why he got a record date on their label, though he was not up to the standard of other BN-recording saxophonists ? 

On the BN-Film he looks like a really rich man. I suppose, he made his money from other sources than playin music ? 

[danasgoodstuff]

Gil Melle got his own 78rpm single recorded and played on the radio before he walked into Blue Note when he was still a teenager.  That probably impressed Alfred & Francis.  And he did album covers for them.  And he wrote a bunch of film and TV scores later, so he probably did make good money from that.  And he plays fine.

[Teasing the Korean]

Do we know what Gil Mellé was up to between roughly 1958 and 1966?  Was he studying composition and orchestration?  

His jazz/graphic design era runs roughly from 1953 to 1957.  

His film/TV career, along with the release of Tome VI, begins in 1967.

Do we know what he was doing in the interim?