I was never a big Mel Tormé fan. So many of his recordings were heavy-handed and overly rendered, like drowning perfectly good pancakes in a lake of syrup. The problem is that Tormé was an ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Mel Torme' (born Melvin Howard Torme' on September 13, 1925 and died on June 5, 1999) was a singer, musician, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author (pretty good ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Mel Torme's birthday today! Mel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mel Tormé would eventually compose hundreds of songs – but is best known for writing The Christmas Song - Martin Mills/Hulton ...

Hello, wonderful readers! To continue and hopefully conclude this melancholic March, let’s look at “It’s a Blue World” by Mel Tormé, an album by a semi-popular and underrated vocalist from the ...

In the late 1970s, I was living and working in Los Angeles, having recently finished attending college there. An acquaintance of mine, a member of a makeshift choir that sang Christmas carols at ...

Mel Torme, an inventive and gifted entertainer with a distinctive voice who became a favorite of several generations of music lovers, died Saturday morning. Torme’s death came at UCLA Medical Center, ...

If you’re a serious jazz singer, or listener, chances are you revere the work of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme. For Fitzgerald raised the art of scat singing — which involves inventing technically ...

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