Gil Mellé
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American artist, jazz musician and film composer (1931-2004)
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Gil Mellé (December 31, 1931 – October 28, 2004) was an artist, jazz musician and film composer. In the 1950s, Mellé's paintings and sculptures were shown in New York galleries and he created the cover art for albums by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins. Mellé played the tenor and baritone saxophone with George Wallington, Max Roach, Tal Farlow, Oscar Pettiford, Ed Thigpen, Kenny Dorham and Zoot Sims. As a film and television composer <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gil+Mell%C3
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jersey City
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- instrumentalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
- Instrument
- baritone saxophone
- Record label
- Blue Note
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- related category
- Category:Films scored by Gil Mellé
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1931-12-31
- date of death
- 2004-10-28
- Commons category
- Gil Mellé
- end of work period
- 2004-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
- birth name
- Gilbert John Mellé
- name in native language
- Gil Mellé
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