Top Drawer

Top Drawer

Infobox Album | Name = Top Drawer
Type = Album
Artist = Mel Tormé

| Released = 1983
Recorded = May 1983
Genre = Jazz
Length = 38:41
Label = Concord Records
Producer = Carl Jefferson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zpez97ejkrkt link] | Last album = "An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé"
(1982)
This album = " Top Drawer "
(1983)
Next album = "An Evening at Charlie's"
(1983) |

"Top Drawer" is a 1983 (see 1983 in music) album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

Tormé's performance on this album won him the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male.

Track listing

:1. "A Shine on Your Shoes" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) 3:06:2. "How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehen?" (Johnny Mercer, Tony Scibetta) 5:45:3. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) 4:15:4. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) 5:45:5. "Hi Fly" (Randy Weston) 3:24:6. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) 6:02:7. "What's This?" (Dave Lambert) 3:13:8. "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) 3:51:9. "Here's to My Lady" (Rube Bloom, Mercer) 3:20

Personnel

Recorded May 1983, in Los Angeles, U.S.:

* Mel Tormé - vocals
* George Shearing - piano
* Don Thompson - double bass


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