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 ...

As Mr. Comstock has said in dozens of shows at Birdland and elsewhere, “We met on Nat King Cole’s birthday — known in some homes as St. Patrick’s Day — had our first date on September 13, Mel Torme’s ...

6. “The Christmas Song” was written by a 19-year-old Mel Tormé and 22-year-old Bob Wells in 1945. When Tormé played it for his friend Cole, Cole immediately wanted to record it, according to ...

After making 10 albums with of my band, I really wanted to stretch out and be more adventurous,” Nicolle said.

A quintuple threat on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet, DeLuke began his career as a 15-year-old — in 1945 ... Rosemary Clooney and Mel Tormé.

Years of Imagining the City Through Music,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, celebrates a century of New York’s ...

His omnivorous musical tastes have resulted in more than 500 recordings with everyone from Iggy Pop to Mel Tormé. The saxophonist Paul Shapiro, who has played with London during his foray into ...

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He co-led a sextet with Louie Bellson and Charlie Shavers; and in 1950, he formed his own band for Mel Torme's TV show ... My Father featuring a guest appearance by the ninety-seven-year-old ...

Born To Be Blue’s title track is a Mel Tormé tune: a succulent slow ballad that begins with languorous legato phrases from Quebec’s breathy tenor horn, whose beguiling melodies are suffused ...