Mel Collins on DeBaser: reviews and works

Mel Collins

Musician

Forking crimson fans, progressive rock listeners, and saxophone enthusiasts.
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The Profile

English saxophonist and flautist best known for his work with King Crimson and numerous rock and jazz acts.

Featured on early King Crimson albums; plays alto and soprano saxophones and flute. On A Scarcity of Miracles he performs alongside Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk, Tony Levin, and Gavin Harrison.

One detailed, positive review spotlights Mel Collins within the Jakszyk/Fripp/Collins project A Scarcity of Miracles. The piece praises the album’s atmosphere, melodies, and arrangements, noting Collins’s sax and flute as essential colors. It frames the record as a modern King Crimson offshoot featuring Fripp, Levin, and Harrison.

Notable Quotes

❝ There is Mel Collins, saxophonist and flutist on several essential albums of the early KCrimsonian era, as well as with dozens of other groups; a character always very dear to me for his taste in tackling pieces that certainly don’t lend themselves to sax and flute, but somehow become instruments one can’t do without.