Artist Info: Jose Melis

* Born Jose Melis Guiu 27 February 1920, Havana, Cuba
* Died 7 April 2005, Sun City, Arizona

Despite his striking resemblance to Esquivel, Jose Melis is more like Skitch Henderson--a pleasant pianist and an average arranger who gained more than his share of fame by leading the band on one of Jack Paar's "Tonight! Show" He began as a classical pianist, studying at the Havana Conservatory and under a Cuban government scholarship in Paris. At the age of 16, he moved to the U. [read more...]