Prestige session · in the studio
August 10, 1956
Gil Melle Quartet + 3 = Septet
In the room
- Gil Melle – baritone sax
Art Farmer – trumpet · as + Art Farmer- Julius Watkins – French horn
- Hal McKusick – alto sax, flute
- Joe Cinderella – guitar
- Vinnie Burke – bass
Ed Thigpen – drums · as Edmund Thigpen
The takes
What the numbers mean
918 is a matrix number: Prestige gave every tune it recorded the next number in one running series. Most dates kept only the take that was issued, so there's seldom a take number beside it.
3 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 1517 | Patterns in Jazz | Gil Mellé | 1956 | Gil Melle, Joe Cinderella, Ed Thigpen |
 | PRLP 7102 | Earthy | Kenny Burrell, Al Cohn, Art Farmer, Hal McKusick, Mal Waldron, Teddy Kotick, Ed Thigpen | 1957 | Art Farmer, Hal McKusick, Ed Thigpen |
2 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | PRLP 7040 | Melle Plays Primitive Modern | The Gil Melle Quartet | 1956 | Gil Melle, Ed Thigpen |
 | PRLP 7092 | Three Trumpets | Farmer/Byrd/Sulieman | 1957 | Art Farmer, Ed Thigpen |
 | PRLP 7097 | Quadrama | Gil Melle Quartet | 1957 | Gil Melle, Joe Cinderella |