Jose Melis On Broadway

Small World

Jose Melis On Broadway
Mercury Records SR 60610
1961

From the back cover: Jose Melis began his musical study at three, immediately showing amazing virtuosity. At six, he entered the Havana conservatory, from where he graduated four years later, as a teacher. So precocious was Melis that the Cuban government awarded him a scholarship to study in Paris, where he won a competition which provided for study with the eminent French pianist, Alfred Cortot. After his study in Paris, he returned to his native Havana, where he did concert work, including performances with the Havana Symphony. Shortly after, he went to Boston to study with Edwin Brodky, harpsichordist and concert pianist. After three years in Boston, a second scholarship to study under Joseph and Rosa Lhevinne at Juilliard Graduate school took him to New York. After serving in the U.S. Army, he toured the States as a musical director for the USO Camp Shows.

Before joining the Jack Parr Show, he spent almost ten years playing outstanding professional engagements that ranged from the Hotel Sahara, Las Vegas, to the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, to Basin Street and the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York.

I Could Have Dance All Night
Tonight
So In Love
Joey, Joey, Joey
Small World (Cha Cha)
The Party's Over
From This Moment On
The Heather On The Hill
We Kiss In The Shadow
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Till There Was You
Stranger In Paradise