Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass

Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
Studio album by Mel Tormé
Released 1986
Recorded May 1986
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 43:22
Label Concord
Producer Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
An Elegant Evening
(1985)		 Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
(1986)		 A Vintage Year
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

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.[2]

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.:

The Boss Brass

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass at AllMusic
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