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The Classic Concert Live

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Released
  
February 15, 2005

Length
  
38:41

The Classic Concert Live (1982)
  
Top Drawer (1983)

Release date
  
15 February 2005

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
June 29, 1982

Producer
  
Chris Dunn

The Classic Concert Live (1982)
  
Little Big Horn (1983)

Label
  
Columbia Jazz

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Artists
  
Mel Tormé, George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan

Similar
  
A Vintage Year, An Elegant Evening, Mel and George "Do" Worl, Top Drawer, An Evening at Charlie's

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The Classic Concert Live is a live album by Mel Tormé, Gerry Mulligan, and George Shearing, recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1982 and released in 2005.

Contents

Shearing and Tormé would go on to make six albums together for Concord Records, this is the only recorded performance of Shearing and Tormé with Gerry Mulligan.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Matt Collar said that the trio of Tormé, Mulligan and Shearing sounded "terrific", with Shearing "in fine form with his urbane keyboard style adding dramatic punch throughout the night".

Track listing

  1. "I've Heard That Song Before" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:53
  2. "I Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today" (Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing) – 4:55
  3. "Jeru" (Gerry Mulligan) – 4:05
  4. Duke Ellington medley: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"/"Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 5:24
  5. "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 6:20
  6. "Walkin' Shoes" (Mulligan) – 3:58
  7. "'Round Midnight" (Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk) – 5:56
  8. "Line for Lyons" (Mulligan) – 5:22
  9. Talk – 0:52
  10. "Wave"/"Water to Drink (Agua de Beber)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)/(Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 6:03
  11. "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 11:28
  12. "The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)" (Irving Berlin) – 3:05
  13. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:47

Personnel

Performance

Production

Songs

1I've Heard That Song Before2:53
2I Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today4:56
3Jeru4:05

References

The Classic Concert Live Wikipedia
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