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  • Jazz Records JR-2
    Jazz Records JR-2
  • Mel Lewis
    Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

Got' Cha

Fresh Sound 1600 Series

Personnel:
Ed Leddy (tp), Richie Kamuca, Jerry Coker (ts), Pepper Adams (bs), Johnny Marabuto (p), Dean Reilly (b), Mel Lewis (d)

Reference: FSRCD 1606

Bar code: 8427328616065

3*** By All Music Guide

Mel Lewis' first album under his own name.

Tracklist

01. In a Mellowtone (Duke Ellington) 8:06
02. Leave Your Worries Behind (Lennie Niehaus) 4:14
03. A Winters Tale (Pepper Adams) 8:33
04. Sir Richard Face (Bill Perkins) 4:57
05. One for pat (Lennie Niehaus) 3:52
06. 'Enry 'Iggins 'Ead (Jerry Coker) 8:18
07. El Cerrito (Johnny Marabuto) 6:05

Album details

Originally releases as Jazz Records JR-2

Personnel:
Ed Leddy (tp), Richie Kamuca, Jerry Coker (ts), Pepper Adams (bs), Johnny Marabuto (p), Dean Reilly (b), Mel Lewis (d).
Recorded in San Francisco, 1956

Produced for CD release: Jordi Pujol

Press reviews

Although he was generally reluctant to solo, Mel Lewis was considered one of the definitive big band drummers, a musician who was best at driving an orchestra, but could also play quite well with smaller units. He started playing professionally when he was 15 and worked with the big bands of Boyd Raeburn (1948), Alvino Rey, Ray Anthony, and Tex Beneke. Lewis gained a great deal of recognition in the jazz world for his work with Stan Kenton (1954-1957), making the large ensemble swing hard. In 1957, he settled in Los Angeles, became a studio drummer, and worked with the big bands of Terry Gibbs and Gerald Wilson. Lewis went to New York to play with Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band in 1960, and he toured Europe with Dizzy Gillespie (1961) and the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman (1962). In 1965, Lewis formed an orchestra in New York with Thad Jones which grew to be one of the top big bands in jazz. When Jones surprised everyone by suddenly fleeing to Europe in 1979, Lewis became the orchestra's sole leader, playing regularly each Monday night at the Village Vanguard until his death. Lewis recorded as a leader in the 1950s for San Francisco Jazz Records, Mode (reissued on V.S.O.P.), and Andex and, after Thad Jones left their orchestra, Lewis recorded with his big band for Atlantic, Telarc, and Music Masters.

Scott Yanow -All Music Guide

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