professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations. Lewis was born...

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965. The band performed...

Jones Mel Lewis Quartet (Artists House, 1978) with Mel Lewis, Harold Danko, Rufus Reid Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and UMO (RCA, 1978) with Mel Lewis and UMO...

Mel Lewis and Friends is an album by drummer/bandleader Mel Lewis recorded in 1976 and released by the Horizon label the following year. Allmusic awarded...

1975) With The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Live in Munich (Horizon, 1976) Suite for Pops (A&M Horizon, 1975) Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra with Rhoda Scott...

Bellson & The Explosion – Note Smoking Mel Lewis, Thad Jones and Umo – Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and UMO Mel Lewis and The Jazz Orchestra – Naturally Toshiko...

The Thad Jones Mel Lewis Quartet is a live album by the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Quartet recorded in 1977 in Miami and released on the Artists House label...

collaborations with trumpeter Donald Byrd and as a member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. Pepper Adams was born in Highland Park, Michigan, to father...

Mel Gibson is an American actor, director, and producer, who made his acting debut on the Australian television drama series The Sullivans (1976–1983)...

Lionel Hampton, among others, and was an original member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. His longest engagement was with NBC, where, as a studio trumpeter...

(1905–1985) Kevin Chad Layer (Born 1988) Mel Lewis (1929–1990) (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (c.1965-1977)) Ted Lewis (1890–1971) Guy Lombardo (1902–1977)...

The Big Band Sound of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis featuring Miss Ruth Brown, also released as Fine Brown Frame, is a 1968 Solid State Records recording of vocalist...

Beatles. In 1999, Mel B began recording her debut album, working with producers Sisqó, Teddy Riley, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the latter of whom...

Consummation is an album by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. It was released in 1970 on Blue Note Records and re-released in 2002. It was recorded...

Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra (Joe Williams & The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) — Phil Ramone, engineer Presenting Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and the...

Band in 1957 and later played with Maynard Ferguson and The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra. He also recorded with Charles Mingus, Andrew Hill, Jaki Byard...

American hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring fellow American musicians Eric Nally of Foxy Shazam, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, and Grandmaster Caz....

Leroy Vinnegar (2–5, 7–8) – bass Shelly Manne (1, 3, 5–7, 9) – drums Mel Lewis (2, 4, 8) – drums Allmusic review Hall, Tony (12 April 1958). "Jazz reviews"...

he played with Horace Silver, and following this with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis from 1970 to 1976. Also in the 1970s, he played with Max Roach, starting...

The Complete Solid State Recordings of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra is a Mosaic Records limited edition compilation of all previously released songs...

joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. He spent six years as a featured soloist with that band and its successor, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra...

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Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by Joe Williams with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and...

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, playing tenor saxophone, clarinet and flute. On the album "Presenting Joe Williams and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra"...

rivets, deeper bow and shallower bell, based on a cymbal made famous by Mel Lewis, who coined the name knocker. Originally a Zildjian exclusive, both swish...

careers and sustaining others that were already aloft. The Thad Jones–Mel Lewis Orchestra that eventually became the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra played on...

and Cal Tjader. From 1966 to 1972, he was a member of The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He has also played with Don Sebesky, Oliver Nelson, Frank Sinatra...

Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Mike Rubin (b); Peter Mercurio (b/tymp); Mel Lewis (d); Dale Anderson (tymp); Frank Flynn (perc). Tracks 2, 3, 4: 18-February-1963...

Eckstine, Oscar Pettiford, Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra (of which he was a founding member), and later with Earl Hines'...

18, he joined Lionel Hampton's big band before joining the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra as lead trumpet. After playing with Charles Mingus in his early...