Tag: Mel Villena

(Tenth of a series) To be around Mel Villena—musical director, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and raconteur nonpareil—is to check your worries at the door. No day is too dreary that he cannot save the rest of it from crumbling, unmendable, at your feet. At least that’s what it feels like every time he’s at the baton...