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Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
43:22

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Concord Records

Recorded
  
May 1986

Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986)
  
A Vintage Year (1987)

Producer
  
Carl Jefferson

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Artists
  
Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass

Vocal jazz albums
  
An Elegant Evening, My Kind of Music, Nothing Without You, It's a Blue World, Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire

Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass is a 1986 studio album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by Rob McConnell's Boss Brass Big band. Tormé and McConnell's follow up album, Velvet & Brass was released in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46
  2. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55
  3. "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30
  4. "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37
  5. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45
  6. "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00
  7. "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34
  8. Duke Ellington Medley: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"/"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"/"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"/"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Ellington, Russell)/(Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) - 12:15

Personnel

Recorded May 1986, in Los Angeles, U.S.:

  • Mel Tormé - vocals
    • The Boss Brass
  • Arnie Chycoski - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Erich Traugott
  • John MacLeod
  • Ian McDougall - trombone
  • Dave McMurdo
  • Bob Livingston
  • Ron Hughes - bass trombone
  • James MacDonald - french horn
  • Eugene Amaro - flute, tenor saxophone
  • Moe Koffman - clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Bob Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  • Rick Wilkins - clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Dave Woods - trumpet, violin, flugelhorn
  • Robert Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  • George Stimpson
  • Jerry Toth - flute, alto clarinet
  • Jimmy Dale - piano, electric piano
  • Guido Basso - harmonica, trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Ed Bickert - guitar
  • Jerry Fuller - drums
  • Brian Leonard - percussion
  • Steve Wallace - double bass
  • Rob McConnell - arranger, conductor, trombone

    • Songs

    1Just Friends4:49
    2September Song4:59
    3Don'cha Go 'way Mad4:30

    References

    Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Wikipedia
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