Mel Henke had only a albums under him as being the leader.
The covers of his LP's where sexy cheesecake photo's or amusing to the eye. He was on several labels such as Contemporary, Warner Brothers, tempo, Dobre, & VitaCoustic on 78 RPM. I have not listened to all of his music but I did find a couple of cool tittyshakers he recorded. First one is "77 Sunset Strip" very uptempo groover that makes to want to run off to a strip club and ask one of girls please dance to this tune. The other is "The Twisters" very cool song with a slow groove. Below I found them on YouTube so you can check them out for yourself.
This is what all music had to say about henke's space age music.
"By the early '40s he had settled in Los Angeles, leading his own trio on the side. This outfit landed a deal to make a pair of albums on the Contemporary label, which is where jazz buffs inevitably come across him. Fans of the type of challenging jazz often presented on this label may find the concoctions of Henke a bit bubbly; his followers seem to drift in more from the aforementioned loungey or space age waiting rooms."
