Released 1986 Length 43:22 Release date 1986 | Recorded May 1986 | |
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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
- "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46
- "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55
- "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30
- "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37
- "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45
- "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00
- "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34
- 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.:
Songs
1Just Friends4:49
2September Song4:59
3Don'cha Go 'way Mad4:30
References
Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA