An Evening with Mel Tormé

1996 live album by Mel Tormé

An Evening with Mel Tormé

Live album by

Mel Tormé

Released| 1996
Recorded| July 23, 1996
Genre| Vocal jazz
Length| 55:07
Label| Concord
Mel Tormé chronology
| Velvet & Brass
(1995)  | An Evening with Mel Tormé
(1996)  | Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
(2002)

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An Evening with Mel Tormé is a 1996 live album by Mel Tormé. This was Tormé's final recording before a stroke ended his career. [1]

## Track listing

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1. "Just One of Those Things"/"On Green Dolphin Street" (Cole Porter)/(Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) – 4:56
2. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 3:50
3. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 4:19
4. "Pick Yourself Up" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 4:41
5. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 5:03
6. "Love for Sale" (Porter) – 5:09
7. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 4:42
8. Benny Goodman medley: "Three Little Words"/"Slipped Disc"/"Smooth One"/"Rachel's Dream" (Harry Ruby, Burt Kalmar)/(Benny Goodman)/(Goodman)/(Goodman, Bert Reisfeld) – 3:09
9. "I Remember You"/"It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger)/(Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:07
10. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 3:48
11. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Parish, Frank Signorelli) – 4:12
12. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:41
13. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 2:30

## Personnel

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* Mel Tormé – vocals
* Mike Renzi – piano
* John Leitham – double bass
* Donny Osborne – drums

## References

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1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "An Evening with Mel Tormé > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved September 29, 2011.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio
albums|

* It's a Blue World (1955)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (1956)
* Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956)
* Mel Tormé's California Suite (1957)
* Prelude to a Kiss (1957)
* Tormé Meets the British (1957)
* Tormé (1958)
* Back in Town (1959)
* ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (1959)
* Broadway, Right Now! (1961)
* Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1960)
* I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! (1960–61)
* Swingin' on the Moon (and Margaret Whiting, 1960–61)
* My Kind of Music (1961)
* Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York (1963)
* That's All (1964–66)
* Right Now! (1966)
* A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
* Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969)
* Tormé: A New Album (1977)
* Together Again: For the First Time/When I Found You (and Buddy Rich, 1978)
* Top Drawer (and George Shearing, 1983)
* Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1988)
* Nothing Without You (and Cleo Laine, 1991)
* Christmas Songs (1992)
* A Tribute to Bing Crosby (1994)
* Velvet & Brass ( and Rob McConnell, 1995)

Live
albums|

* Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1955)
* Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957)
* Songs for Any Taste (1957)
* Mel Tormé at the Red Hill (1962)
* Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette (1975)
* An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
* The Classic Concert Live (and Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, 1982)
* An Evening at Charlie's (and George Shearing, 1983)
* A Vintage Year (and George Shearing, 1987)
* Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo (1988)
* Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990)
* Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990)
* Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990)
* Sing Sing Sing (1992)
* Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (1993)
* The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub (1992)
* An Evening with Mel Tormé (1996)
* Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (2001)

Selected
singles|

* "Comin' Home Baby" (1962)

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