Gil Melle

New Faces - New Sounds Gil Melle

Limited 10" vinyl repressing. Recorded for Blue Note during tenor saxophonist Gil Melle's modernist period, New Faces New Sounds is an 8-track set comprised of two sessions captured at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NY in March 1952 with Eddie Bert (trombone), Joe Manning (vibraphone), George Wallington (piano), Red Mitchell (bass), Max Roach (drums) and Monica Dell (vocals) and January 1953 with Eddie Bert (trombone), George Wallington (piano), Tal Farlow (guitar), Clyde Lombardi (bass) and Joe Morello (drums). A Blue Note essential, New Faces New Sounds is being re-released as part of the label's 75th anniversary LP reissue campaign.