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About Mel Powell
Mel Powell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. His classic Big Band compositions include "Mission to Moscow", "My Guy's Come Back", "Clarinade", "The Earl", and "Bubble Bath".
Everything about Mel Powell →- Occupation
- pianist, composer, musicologist, music educator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 12, 1923
- Died
- April 24, 1998