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Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and UMO

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“Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and UMO” is catalogued in Crown Archives’ open-reference index. The complete reference text is available from the original source linked below.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Thad, Jones and Lewis providing the first useful test.
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This catalogue route points to “Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and UMO” on English Wikipedia. The source page should be consulted before relying on this record. When present, Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.