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Artist bios. Mel Tormé was a jazz-oriented pop singer who worked at his craft steadily from the '40s to the '90s, 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 '40s to describe his husky, wide-ranging ...
Professional ratings. An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé is a live album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing. [1] It was the first of six albums that Tormé and Shearing recorded together for Concord Records, and Tormé's performance on this album won him the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male at the 25th ...
Crée gratuitement ton compte sur Deezer et écoute Mel Tormé : discographie, top titres et playlists. Melvin Howard Tormé, plus connu sous son diminutif « Mel » Tormé, naît le 13 septembre 1925 à Chicago dans l’Illinois.
5. Juni 1999 · Added: Jun 7, 1999. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 5612. Source citation. Singer. He gained fame an award-winning American jazz singer as well as being a songwriter, composer, arranger, drummer, actor and author. Nicknamed The Velvet Fog, he was one of the most successful jazz singers of the 20th Century. Born Melvin Howard Tormé in Chicago to a ...
With Tormé's assistance, Rhino Records mounted the first comprehensive box set of his recordings, The Mel Tormé Collection 1944-1985, in 1996, and in July he recorded the live album An Evening with Mel Tormé for the A&E network. The following month, on August 8, he suffered a stroke. While he had recovered sufficiently by November to be released from the hospital, he faced continuing ...
Mel Tormé chronology; Top Drawer (1983) An Evening at Charlie's (1983) An Elegant Evening (1985) An Evening at Charlie's is a 1983 live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing. Professional ratings; R ...
His initial effort for them, the live album Mel Tormé at the Red Hill, cut in March 1962, was what he had in mind, but Atlantic got what it wanted with the bluesy single "Comin' Home Baby," cut in September 1962, which gave Tormé a Top 40 hit on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and earned him his first two Grammy nominations (Best Solo Performance, Male, and Best Rhythm & Blues Recording ...
