Mel Tormé

Mel Tormé
Born: Sep 13, 1925 in Chicago, IL
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Died: Jun 5, 1999 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Show Tunes, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz, Bop, Ballads
Biography: Mel Tormé was a jazz-oriented pop singer who worked at his craft steadily from the 1940s to the 1990s, primarily in nightclubs and concert halls. In his 1988 autobiography, It Wasn't All Velvet (its title a reference to his nickname, "The Velvet Fog," bestowed upon him by a disc jockey in the 1940s to ...Read full biography
Lulu's Back in Town
Released: 1956
Label: Rhino
Critics' Rating:
This Bethlehem LP (last reissued in 1978 and originally known as Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette) is a classic. Singer Mel Tormé was matched for the first time with arranger Marty Paich's ten piece ...Read full review
Sings Fred Astaire
Released: 1956
Label: Rhino/WEA
Critics' Rating:
Though it's sometimes relegated to second or third place among Tormé's best albums of the '50s (behind Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette and It's a Blue World), it's difficult to hear how Mel Tormé ...Read full review
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