Marcello Melis
Marcello Melis (born August 16, 1939 in Cagliari ; † October 5, 1994 in Paris ) was an Italian double bass player and composer of creative jazz .
Live and act
Melis first studied at the local conservatory . Then he went on tour with the I lumi variety group and studied political science . After graduating, he moved to Rome, where he met Mario Schiano . With him, Giancarlo Schiaffini and the drummer Franco Pecori, he founded the Gruppo Romano Free Jazz in the spring of 1966 , the first Italian formation to turn to free jazz , and at the same time with “radicalism and a lack of concern for the conventions of traditional jazz practice”. In the next few years he continued to play with Steve Lacy ( Moon , 1969), Enrico Rava ( Il Giro Del Giorno In 80 Mondi , 1976), Gato Barbieri and Mal Waldron . In 1970 he was involved with Barbieri as a musician in Pasolini's documentary Notes for an African Oresty . In the 1970s he worked in New York with Lester Bowie , Roswell Rudd , Don Pullen and Hamiet Bluiett , with whom he also recorded. On his album The New Village on the Left he had jazz musicians who were familiar with the free idiom play over recordings with the traditional singing of a tenor quartet in order to " unite the Sardinian pastoral music with the means of expression of contemporary jazz."
He died of complications from cancer .
Discographic notes
- Perdas De Fogu (Burning Stones) (Vista, 1974) with Mario Schiano, Bruce Johnson , Don Pullen, Jerome Cooper , Ray Mantilla , Sheila Jordan
- The New Village on the Left ( Black Saint , 1974/1976) with Enrico Rava, Roswell Rudd, Don Moye , Gruppo Rubanu (Egidio Muscau, Antonio Buffa, Sebastiano Piras, Nicolò G. Rubanu)
- Free to Dance (Black Saint, 1978) with Rava, Lester Bowie, Gary Valente , George Lewis , Don Pullen, Fred Hopkins , Don Moye, Naná Vasconcelos , Jeanne Lee , Sheila Jordan
- Angedras (Black Saint, 1982) with Don Pullen, Sandro Satta and Don Moye
literature
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3
Web links
- Marcello Melis at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard Jost European Jazz 1960-80 Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 101
- ↑ Marcello Melis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Review: The New Village on the Left , JazzTimes 1997
- ↑ Ekkehard Jost, Europäische Jazz , p. 102
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melis, Marcello |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cagliari |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 1994 |
| Place of death | Paris |