The Essentials
Released: Oct 1, 2002
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Released: Oct 1, 2002
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For every volume in a budget-collection series that effectively compiles 10 or 12 of an artist's best-known songs, there are several that fail miserably -- whether because they make a mockery of...
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Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
Released: Sep 10, 2002
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Released: Sep 10, 2002
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Three years before a stroke ended Mel Tormé's career, he appeared with his trio and Ray Anthony & His Big Band at the 1993 Playboy Jazz Festival, though the CD wasn't issued until some nine years...
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Two Darn Hot: A Night at the Concord Pavilion/Live at the Fujitsu-Concord
Released: Feb 12, 2002
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Released: Feb 12, 2002
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Someone at Concord has come up with an excellent idea: Why not reissue two classic discs by an artist in one package? Two Darn Hot holds two discs by Mel Tormé released in 1990, Night at the...
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A Foggy Day - GOLDEN STARS
Released: Jan 29, 2002
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Released: Jan 29, 2002
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The Portuguese Golden Stars label releases some shabby material, but this three-disc set of Mel Tormé performances from the late '40s is a very good exception. The first two discs include 28 of his...
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Again: A Jazz Hour with Mel Tormé
Released: Oct 30, 2001
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Released: Oct 30, 2001
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It's unclear what the title Again refers to on this Jazz Hour compilation, though it could be the label's acknowledgment that this is hardly the debut of this material (a landmark 50th re-release...
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Mel Tormé's Finest Hour
Released: May 15, 2001
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Released: May 15, 2001
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Mel Tormé's Finest Hour leads off with a Decca recording from 1944 but otherwise concentrates on Tormé's stints with the Coral and Verve labels between 1953-1960. Tormé's tight arrangements and...
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