{"id":25842,"date":"2025-01-06T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25842"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:42:16","slug":"media-music-gill-melle-columbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25842","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA\/MUSiC: Gill Mell\u00e9, Columbo, Pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khO0m-sROjw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I do wish someone would do a Gil Melle Columbo soundtrack album. There\u2019s some brilliant music buried in these ol\u2019 shows. It could, of course, be supplemented by Melle\u2019s other OST work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8olmGxhNmxM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Brilliant!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly I\u2019m not alone in loving this sublime music. I\u2019ve found several homages online. The above really nails it. Great stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2998-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25975\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2998-1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2998-1-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gil Mell\u00e9, back in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve explored some of Mell\u00e9\u2019s own earlier jazz recordings, for Blue Note. They\u2019re alright. But they don\u2019t have the same moody magic of his work on TV &amp; film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about this earlier era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2010\/01\/gil-melle.html\">here<\/a>. I learned from this linked article that Mell\u00e9 was the guy who brought Rudy Van Gelder to Alfred Lion\u2019s attention. For that fact alone, Mell\u00e9\u2019s place in jazz history ought to be better known and celebrated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do wish someone would do a Gil Melle Columbo soundtrack album. There\u2019s some brilliant music buried in these ol\u2019 shows. It could, of course, be supplemented by Melle\u2019s other OST work. Clearly I\u2019m not alone in loving this sublime music. I\u2019ve found several homages online. The above really nails it. Great stuff! I\u2019ve explored &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA\/MUSiC: Gill Mell\u00e9, Columbo, Pt. I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6IO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25977,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25842\/revisions\/25977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}