Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 8118 7612
https://isni.org/isni/0000000081187612
Name: 
Epstein, Melvin
Mel Powell
Powell, M
Powell, Mel
Powell, Mel (Amerikaans jazzpianist)
Powell, Melvin
Dates: 
1923-1998
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Notated music
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
performer
Related identities: 
Epstein, Melvin (Wirklicher Name; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Berlin, Irving
Bullock, W.
Danval, Marc
Donaldson, Walter
Hadnott, Billy
Hucko, Peanuts (1918-2003)
Jazz club Mystery hot band (see also from)
Maurice, Peter
McKinley, Ray
McKinley, Ray (1910-1995)
Mel Powell and His Orchestra (isMemberOf)
Monaco, James V.
Powell, Mel
Privin, Bernie (1919-1999)
Queens College (New York, N.Y.) (isAffiliatedWith)
Smith, Willie (1910-1967)
Van Acker, Achille Honoré
Ventura, Charlie (1916-1992)
Whiting, Richard A.
Young, Lee
Young, Lester (1909-1959)
Titles: 
5 Original boogie woogie piano solos
Ain’t Misbehavin’
All the Cats Join In
American in Paris, An
American Splendor
Anything Goes
Avalon
Babes in Arms
Benny Goodman storyselections featured in the motion picture of his life, The
Birth of the Blues
Blue Lou
Blue skies
Blues for Norman (8 min 32 s)
Blues in the Night
Body and Soul
Borderline (3 min 29 s)
Bouquet (4 min 54 s)
Bubble Bath
Buckle Down, Winsocki
Can‐Can
can't get started (7 min 07 s), I
can't get started with you (9 min 07 s), I
China boy (3 min 34 s)
Clarinade
Clarinet à la King
conde The earl, El : foxtrot
Crazy for You
Crazy rhythm (7 min 57 s)
Cross Your Heart
Cuban Pete
Damsel in Distress, A
Dearly Beloved
Don-que-dee (3 min 30 s)
Don't be that way (3 min 03 s)
Don't blame me
Down south camp meetin' (3 min 10 s)
Duplicates / Setting / Modules
Earl, The
Early modern 1946 concert recordings
Early Modern1946 Concert recording
Elmer’s Tune
Everything I Love
Exactly Like You
Fascinating rhythm (2 min 58 s)
Fly-bynight (3 min 19 s)
For "Miss Black"
Funny Face
Girl Crazy
Goldwyn Follies, The
Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
Hallelujah
Hommage à Debussy
How Deep Is the Ocean?
How High the Moon
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
I’m Old Fashioned
I’ve Found a New Baby
(I’ve Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo
Idaho
If Dreams Come True
If I Had You
If You Build a Better Mousetrap
Incertidumbre
It's been so long (2 min 56 s)
Jazzspeak (20 min)
Jersey Bounce
Jubilee
Jumpin’ at the Woodside
Just you, just me
King Porter stomp (3 min01 s)
Klavierstücke, op. 119
Let’s Dance
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)
Limehouse Blues
Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away)
Lover Man
Lucky
Makin' whoopee (4 min 47 s)
man I love, The
Mission to Moscow (2 min 36 s)
Modules
Mood at twilight
Moonglow (3 min 25 s)
Muskrat Ramble
MY GUY'S COME BACK : Boogie-woogie
My Honey’s Loving Arms
My Little Cousin
My Old Flame
My One and Only
New York, New York
nocturnes vl 1985
Not a Care in the World
Not Mine
Oh, baby ! (7 min 46 s)
On Your Toes
One O’Clock Jump
One, two, button your shoe
Out of nowhere (8 min 25 s)
Pal Joey
Paris
Piano prodigy
Quin and sonic (3 min 43 s)
quintette fl ob klar fg hr 1985
Ramona
Recitative and Toccata Percossa
Red light
Rock Rimmon
Roll ’em
Rosalie
Rose Room
Rosita, La
Runnin’ Wild
Sent for You Yesterday
Serenade in Blue
Setting for guitar
Setting for Two Pianos
Seven come eleven - fox
Shady Lady Bird
Shine
Six Flats Unfurnished
Slipped Disc
solfege ear training rhythm dictation and music theory a comprehensive course
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
Somebody Nobody Loves
Somebody Stole My Gal
Someday Sweetheart
Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat
Song Was Born, A
Stealin' smack's apples
Stompin’ at the Savoy
Stomping at the Savoy (8 min 30 s)
String of Pearls, A
String Quartet
Summer Stock
Sweet Georgia Brown (8 min 33 s)
Swing angel (3 min 10 s)
Take me in your arms (4 min 07 s)
Te dije que te quiero : fox
That Old Black Magic
That’s a Plenty
There Won’t Be a Shortage of Love
Thigamagig
Three Madrigals
Threw a Kiss in the Ocean, I
Tiger Rag
’Tis Autumn
Tú y yo Just you, just me
Wang Wang Blues
’Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
We’ll Meet Again
What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry?
What’s New?
When a Woman Loves a Man
When did you leave heaven
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Why don't you do right ? (3 min 12 s)
Winter Weather
wonderful (6 min 42 s), 'S
world is waiting 1942-1946., The
world is waiting for the sunrise, The
You Don’t Know What Love Is
You fascinating you : fox-trot
You Go to My Head
You’re a Sweetheart
You’re Easy to Dance With
You’re Lucky to Me
You're my thrill (5 min 22 s)
You, you're driving me crazy
YOU, YOU'RE DRIVING ME GRAZY
Notes: 
Associated Group: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Yale University California Institute of the Arts naf
Baker, 8th ed (Powell, Mel (real name Melvin Epstein); b. 2-12-33, N.Y.; composer)
His Divertimento, 1957
His Letter to a young composer, c1987 cover (M. Powell)
New Grove dict. of Amer. mus (Powell, Mel; b. 2-12-23, New York; composer, teacher)
New York times, Apr. 27, 1998 p. B7 (Mel Powell, composer, 75, d. Apr. 24, 1998, Sherman Oaks, Calif.; b. Feb. 12, 1923, New York City)
Other designation: Americans. Source: lcdgt.
Other designation: Californians. Source: lcdgt.
Pianists Composers Teachers
Piano--Performance Composition (Music)
Wikipedia, October 16, 2019 (Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein) (February 12, 1923-April 24, 1998) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts; He served as a music educator for over 40 years, first at Mannes College of Music and Queens College, then Yale University, and finally at CalArts. During his early career he worked as a jazz pianist)
Ww in Amer. mus., Classical, 2nd ed (Powell, Mel; b. 2-12-23, New York; studied piano with Sara Barg & Nadia Reisenberg, 1928-40)
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