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An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Tormé

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Released
  
1982

Length
  
38:41

Release date
  
1982

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
April 15, 1982

Label
  
Concord

Producer
  
Carl Jefferson

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An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982)
  
The Classic Concert Live (1982)

Artists
  
Mel Tormé, George Shearing

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male

Similar
  
George Shearing albums, Jazz albums

An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé is a live album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

Contents

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 Grammy Awards.

Track listing

  1. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jermann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper) – 3:37
  2. "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 5:15
  3. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 3:39
  4. "Good Morning Heartache" (Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham) – 6:10
  5. "Manhattan Hoedown" (Brian Torff) – 4:46
  6. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 2:52
  7. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 5:02
  8. "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:55
  9. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:42
  10. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 7:32

Personnel

  • Mel Tormé – vocals
  • George Shearing – piano
  • Brian Torff – double bass

    • Songs

    1All God's Chillun Got Rhythm3:37
    2Born to Be Blue5:14
    3Give Me the Simple Life3:40

    References

    An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé Wikipedia
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