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Gil Mellé was an American jazz saxophonist and visual artist, born on December 31, 1931, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He passed away on October 28, 2004, in Malibu, California, due to a heart attack. Mellé initially dreamed of becoming an engineer, but financial constraints led him to attend art school instead. He began his military service in the marines at the age of 16 by lying about his age, spending time in California. After returning to New York, he signed with Blue Note Records as a jazz performer at the age of 19. His artistic talents allowed him to create album-cover paintings for notable artists such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins, along with showcasing his work in art galleries in New York. Mellé made significant contributions to electronic music, debuting electronic jazz with his group The Electronauts at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival. In 1968, Verve released his album Tome VI, recognized as the first all-electronic jazz album. He composed the theme for Night Gallery in 1970, notable for being the first all-electronic main title for a television series, and his score for the 1971 sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain marked the first all-synthesizer score for a feature film. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Mellé composed traditional orchestral music for television, scoring TV movies such as

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