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Gil Melle was an American jazz saxophonist and visual artist, born on December 31, 1931, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was known for being a pioneering creator of electronically generated music. Melle initially dreamed of becoming an engineer, but due to financial constraints, he attended art school instead. At the age of 16, he lied about his age to enlist in the military and served in the Marines, spending time in California. After returning to New York, he signed with Blue Note Records as a jazz performer at the age of 19. Melle's artistic talents led him to create album-cover paintings for notable artists such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins, along with exhibiting his work in art galleries in New York. In 1967, Melle and his group, The Electronauts, debuted electronic jazz at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The following year, he released Tome VI through Verve, which was the first all-electronic jazz album. His work in television included the theme for Night Gallery in 1970, the first all-electronic main title for a TV series, and the score for the 1971 sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain, which became the first all-synthesizer score for a feature film. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Melle composed traditional orchestral music for television, scoring TV movies such as My Sweet Charlie and That Certain Summer, as

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