Mel Tormé & AVRO's Big Band • 12-07-1981 • World of Jazz

Mel Tormé & Avro's Big Band - 12 July 1981

Full live concert of American singer Mel Tormé with the AVRO Big Band at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1981 in the Prince Willem Alexander Hall, Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Melvin Howard Tormé (Chicago, 13 September 1925 - 5 June 1999), also kown asThe Velvet Fog, was an American singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor and author of five books.
Hij wrote the "The Christmas Song" (also known as "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire") with Robert Wells.

This is the repertoire he sang at this beautiful and never broadcast (!) concert:

1- "Riding High"; (Glenn Miller)
2- "Send In The Clowns"; (Stephen Sondheim)
3- "Watch What Happens"; (Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand)
4- "Bluesette"; (Toots Thielemans)
5- "I'm In A New York State Of Mind"; (Billy Joel)
6- "Swing Time";
7- "The Folks Who Live On The Hill"; (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein)
8- "Mountain Greenery"; (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
9- "Soon It's Gonna Rain" + "Here's That Rainy Day";
10- tribute to Ella Fitzgerald with a.o.: 'A Tisket A Tasket A Green and Yellow Basket", "Love For Sale";
11- "Wave".

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