(Shanachie) 2007: Mel Lewis and His Big Band (VIEW) Film 1958: Kings Go Forth - Jazz Musician: Drums (uncredited) Sources External links Allmusic.com – Biography by Scott Yanow Falzerano, Chet (1995). Gretsch Drums: The Legacy of That Great Gretsch Sound. Publisher: Centerstream Publications. Mel Lewis at Drummerworld Mel Lewis at The Percussive Arts Society The Mel Lewis Collection at the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri–Kansas City History of Jazz Drumming interview recordings 1929 births 1990 deaths American jazz drummers American jazz bandleaders Big band bandleaders West Coast jazz drummers American people of Russian-Jewish descent Grammy Award winners Musicians from Buffalo, New York Atlantic Records artists Red Baron Records artists Deaths from melanoma 20th-century American drummers American male drummers Jazz musicians from New York (state) 20th-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra members American Jazz Orchestra members Black Lion Records artists