Mel Lewis

Person · Open Library

Works

9

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1935-09-29

Active to

2022-10-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,090

Total plays

15,083

Mel Lewis (May 10, 1929 - February 2, 1990) was a drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents. His birth name was Melvin Sokoloff. He started playing professionally as a teen, eventually joining Stan Kenton in 1954. His musical career brought him to Los Angeles in 1957 and New York in 1963. In 1966 in New York, he teamed up with Thad Jones to lead the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. The group started as informal jam sessions with the top

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 249,247x

2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,922x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,562x

4. Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition

   · 1991 · cited 22,169x

5. Grey Wolf Optimizer

   · 2014 · cited 18,382x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Q4563684

Family name

Lewis

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Buffalo

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

jazz musician

Genre

jazz

Instrument

drum kit

Record label

Atlantic Records

Image

MelLewis-1979.jpg

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