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My Kind of Music

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1. You and the Night and the Music 2. A Stranger In Town 3. I Guess I

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Mel Torme: My Kind of Music

Read "My Kind of Music" reviewed by David Adler


This 1961 reissue features the late Mel Torme accompanied by three London-based orchestras, led respectively by Geoff Love, Tony Osborne, and Wally Stott. It stands apart from scores of other jazz vocal albums in that nearly half the program consists of Torme’s original songs. The remaining tunes are by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, including a ...

Album

Lulu's Back In Town

Label: Rhino
Released: 1999

Album

The Best Of The Concord Years

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Hi-Fly; Born to be Blue; Lullaby of Birdland; Stardust; Love is Just Around the Corner; This Time the Dream

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Mel Torme: The Best Of The Concord Years

Read "The Best Of The Concord Years" reviewed by Jim Santella


Mel Tormé sang “You’re Driving Me Crazy" at the Blackhawk Club in Chicago when he was only four years old. Many years later, as a Musicraft 78-rpm single, it marked the beginning of his solo ballad career. This 2-CD compilation includes a stirring performance of the same song made in August 1990 at the Concord Pavilion. ...

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Mel Torme: Lulu's Back In Town

Read "Lulu's Back In Town" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Mel’s hip. Period. There’s not a kitsch bone in his body. The television show Night Court did him the greatest disservice by focusing its boob-tube pop sensibilities upon him. Or perhaps, without the blessings of the tragically un-cool keepers of popular culture, many would never get the chance to hear the “Velvet Fog.” The latest word ...

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My Night to Dream

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1998

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Mel Torm: My Night to Dream

Read "My Night to Dream" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Mel Tormé explains in the liner notes to this collection that has “never recorded a straight album of ballads" during his fifteen years with Concord Jazz. “But I've always wanted to do an album exclusively of songs that have the air of moonlight at midnight." So here it is: not a new recording, but twelve tracks ...

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The Jazz Singers

Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society
Released: 1982
Track listing: My Honey's Lovin' Arms; I Ain't Got Nobody; Love Me; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?; As Long As I Live; I Want A Little Girl; You Set Me On Fire; How High The Moon; I'm Just A Lucky So And So; There's A Small Hotel; Dedicated To You; It Had To Be You; When Did You Leave Heaven?; The Devil's Kiss; Think Of Me, Little Daddy; Mumbles; Tea For Two; Dear Bix; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Professor Bop; Cloudburst; I'm In The Mood For Love (Moody's Mood For Love); Yardbird Suite; Oh What A Night For Love; Guess Who's In Town; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; It's The Girl; All Too Soon; A Ship Without A Sail; Big Butter And Egg Man; My Sin; Every Now And Then; Blue Skies; When The Sun Comes Out; Detour Ahead; Honeysuckle Rose; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; When Lights Are Low; Where Flamingos Fly; Blue Gardenia; Some Other Spring; Grievin'; Alone Together; This Is Always; Blue Monk; It Amazes Me; My Ship; Laugh, Clown, Laugh;

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Together Again-For The First Time

Label: Just Jazz
Released: 1978
Track listing: When I Found You; Here's That Rainy Day; Blues In The Night; Bluesette; You Are The Sunshine Of My Life; I Won't Last A Day Without You; Lady Be Good;


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