Mel Martin

The first choice of Bebop & Beyond along with a versatile bop-based reed player with an open-minded style, Mel Martin is a fixture in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA because the 1970s. He previously his initial gig when he was 14 and after participating in San Francisco Condition, he fell out to become professional musician. Among His early organizations among rock groupings had been with Santana, Azteca, Cool Bloodstream, Boz Scaggs, and Truck Morrison, furthermore to employed in the studios. During 1977-1978, he led the ambitious fusion band Pay attention, an organization that documented two albums for Internal Town and included among its sidemen metal drum wizard Andy Narell. In 1983, after documenting a duet record (for Catero) with guitarist Randy Vincent, Martin produced Bebop & Beyond, a music group which has since documented for Concord and Bluemoon, including tribute albums to Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie; Gillespie participated over the last mentioned. Among Bebop & Beyond’s sidemen have already been Vincent, George Wires, Eddie Marshall, and Warren Gale, with such guests on the albums as John Helpful and Howard Johnson. Furthermore to executing music in the Charles Mingus songbook with Bebop & Beyond, Martin documented a single Enja group of Benny Carter music.