Gil Melle Quintet - Vol. 2 - 10" Vinyl LP - Blue Note

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GIL MELLE QUINTET - VOL.2 - 10" VINYL RECORD BLUE NOTE 5033 33/13 MICROGROOVE MODERN JAZZ SERIES   This record is in excellent condition (see record grading in green). Front cover is new looking with slight visual wear. Corners are fairly square with no split seams. The back cover is slightly yellowed with a small in stamping in the top left corner which says PROM.   SONG LISTING IS AS FOLLOWS: SIDE ONE; 1. Timepiece 2. Lover Man 3. Gingersnap / SIDE TWO; 1. A Lion Lives Here 2. Spellbound 3. Transition   1."NEW OR MINT" meaning the LP should be absolutely perfect.Even brand new sealed items can be flawed and not qualify as mint.
2."NEAR MINT" meaning almost perfect, you may see very tiny flaws or very slight wear, including very light scuff marks. 3."EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD+" meaning a minimum of visual or audible imperfections, some visual wear, surface noise is evident.
4."VERY GOOD" ,meaning a little more signs of wear, labels may be marred with some writing or tape or stickers, same with the sleeves, light scratches will be able to be felt with fingernail.
5."GOOD" meaning the item is not bad, but will show definite signs of wear & tear, probably evidence that no real care was given to the item, but should play without skipping, more surface noise is evident.
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A true renaissance man, Gil Melle began his career as a post-bop baritone saxophonist who also composed and painted, later branching out into a wide variety of artistic and scientific fields. He abandoned jazz fairly early on in his career, choosing to compose a number of film and television scores and experiment with electronic music, instead. Then again, Melle's music wasn't strictly jazz — it was a hybrid of jazz, drawn from Duke Ellington in particular, and classical music, which he called "primitive modern." That "primitive modern" music was on display on a series of albums for Blue Note and Prestige in the late '50s. Following that series, Melle only released records sporadically, but he kept amazingly busy, composing scores, pioneering electronic music, building specialized computers and synthesizers, painting, piloting, restoring automobiles and planes, as well as keeping an antiquarian microscopical instrumentation collection.

Melle was born in New York City, where he was raised by a family friend after his parents abandoned him at the age of two. As a child, he began painting (he won several national painting competitions as a preteen) and playing saxophone as a teen. Before he was 16 years old, he was playing several jazz clubs in Greenwich Village. At the age of 19, he signed to Blue Note, becoming the first Caucasian on the label's roster. At Blue Note, he released five 10-inch records before recording his first full-length, 12-inch LP, Patterns in Jazz, in 1956. In addition to recording and performing jazz, Melle continued with his artwork, and his paintings and sculptures were displayed at several New York galleries; in addition, his art was featured on his own albums, as well as records by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Thelonius Monk. He left Blue Note shortly after the Patterns in Jazz sessions, signing with Prestige. Between 1956 and 1957, he recorded three albums for Prestige — Primitive Modern, Gil's Guests, and Quadrama — before deciding to halt his career as a traditional jazz bandleader.