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:

1. "Meetin' Place"

2. "The Summary"

3. "The Farewell"

4. "Toledo By Candlelight"

LP side B:

1. "The Great One"

2. "Only For Now"

3. "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 – lead 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 – lead 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 - bass trombone

• Cliff Heather - bass trombone

• Jack Jeffers – bass trombone/tuba

• Dave Taylor - bass trombone

• Jimmy 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