Boxset / Compilation · 1998
Tracklist
cd. 1
1 Four Moons (Mellé) 2:23
2 The Gears (Mellé) 3:06
3 Mars (Mellé) 2:46
4 Sunset Concerto (Mellé) 2:03
5 Cyclotron (Mellé) 3:13
6 October (Mellé) 3:41
7 Under Capricorn (Mellé) 2:58
8 Venus (Mellé) 3:40
9 Lover Man (Davis, Ramirez, Sherman) 5:55
10 Spellbound (Rozsa) 3:18
11 Transition (Mellé) 5:12
12 A Lion Lives Here (Mellé) 3:50
13 Timepiece (Mellé) 3:10
14 Gingersnap (Mellé) 3:17
15 The Nearness of You (Carmichael, Washington) 4:17
16 Lullaby of Birdland (Shearing, Weiss) 3:46
17 Ballad for Guitar (Mellé) 3:53
18 Metropolitan (Mellé) 2:50
19 Newport News (Mellé) 4:55
cd. 2
1 Summertime (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward) 3:59
2 Quadrille for Moderns (Mellé) 3:31
3 Five Impressions of Color: Spectrum Violet/Sea Green/Royal Blue/Ebony (Mellé) 12:37
4 Life Begins at Midnight (Mellé) 4:24
5 Night Train to Wildwood (Mellé) 4:10
6 Threadneedle Street (Mellé) 4:15
7 Weird Valley (Mellé) 5:13
8 The Set Break (Mellé) 4:48
9 Moonlight in Vermont (Blackburn, Suessdorf) 4:52
10 Long Ago (And Far Away) (Gershwin, Kern) 4:32
11 The Arab Barber Blues (Mellé) 9:05
12 Nice Questions (Mellé) 8:17
Line-up/Musicians
Gil Mellé - ts & bs
Eddie Bert, Urbie Green - tb
Tal Farlow, Lou Mecca, Joe Cinderella - g
Clyde Lombardi, Bill Phillips, Oscar Pettiford - b
Max Roach, Joe Morello, Ed Thigpen - dr
About this release
Blue Note 95718
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey ; between March 5, 1954 and April 1, 1956
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