Mel Pollan

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Melvin "Mel" Pollan (born June 13, 1931 in Methuen , Massachusetts ) is an American jazz and studio musician ( double bass , electric bass ).

Live and act

Mwel Pollan, a son of tuba player and bassist Albert Pollan (who played with Marty Paich and Stan Kenton ), worked in the Californian music scene from the mid-1950s, first with Dave Pell , with whom the first recordings were made ( Love Story ), then at Les Brown and in the mid-1960s in the Baja Marimba Band around Julius Wechter. He has also worked on recording sessions with Billy Usselton (1957), Fred Katz ( Folk Songs for Far Out Folks , 1958), Bob Florence , Si Zentner (1959), Buddy Collette (1961), Richard Behrke , Gene Estes and Johnny Hartman ( I. Love Everybody , 1966) with. In the field of jazz he was involved in 24 recording sessions between 1956 and 1966, as a session musician also with Jan and Dean , Cher ( All I Really Want to Do , 1965), The Beach Boys ( The Smile Sessions ) and in the film music for Stakeout on Dope Street (1958, directed by Irvin Kershner ) and the TV series Johnny Staccato (1960).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Peterson: Show Biz from the Back Row: Playing with the Stars . 2013
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2018)
  3. ^ Mark A. Moore: The Jan & Dean Record: A Chronology of Studio Sessions, Live Performances . 2016, p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Pollan, Mel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollan, Melvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Methuen, Massachusetts