title: Suite for Pops
text: # Suite for Pops
  
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  Suite for Pops is a 1975 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the A&M Horizon label.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  LP side A:
  
  * "Meetin' Place"
  * "The Summary"
  * "The Farewell"
  * "Toledo By Candlelight"
  
  LP side B:
  
  * "The Great One"
  * "Only For Now"
  * "A Good Time Was Had By All"
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Thad Jones – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
  * Mel Lewis – drums
  * Roland Hanna – piano
  * Richard Davis – double bass
  * George Mraz - double bass
  * Steve Gilmore - double bass
  * Jerry Dodgion – soprano & alto saxophone, flute
  * Eddie Xiques – alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute
  * Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, flute
  * Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
  * Ron Bridgewater - tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
  * Frank Foster - tenor saxophone, clarinet
  * Greg Herbert - tenor saxophone
  * Lou Marini - tenor saxophone
  * Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone, clarinet
  * Jon Faddis – trumpet, percussion
  * Stephen Furtado - trumpet
  * Jim Bossy - trumpet
  * Lew Soloff - trumpet
  * Snooky Young – trumpet
  * Marvin Stamm – trumpet
  * Virgil Jones – trumpet
  * Cecil Bridgewater – trumpet
  * Jimmy Knepper – trombone
  * Quentin Jackson – trombone
  * Eddie Bert – trombone
  * Janice Robinson - trombone
  * Earl McIntyre - trombone
  * Cliff Heather - bass trombone
  * Jack Jeffers – bass trombone/tuba
  * Dave Taylor - bass trombone
  * Jim Buffington – French horn
  * Peter Gordon - French horn
  * Earl Chapin - French horn
  * Julius Watkins - French horn
  * Ray Alonge – French horn
  * Leonard Gibbs - percussion
  * Dee Dee Bridgewater – vocal
  
  ## References and external links
  
  * A&M Horizon SP-701
  * Suite for Pops at:
     * Allmusic
     * discogs.com
  