An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé

Infobox Album
Name = An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé
Type = Live album
Artist = Mel Tormé


Background = darkturquoise | Released = 1982
Recorded = April 15 1982
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:lfuf6jp77190 link] | Last album = "An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé"
(1982)
This album = " An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé "
(1983)
Next album = "Top Drawer"
(1983) |

"An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé" is a live 1982 (see 1982 in music) album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lfuf6jp77190 allmusic ] ] .

It was the first of six albums that Tormé and Shearing recorded together for Concord Records, and Tormé's performance on this album won him the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male.

Track listing

# "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jermann, Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper) - 3:37
# "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) - 5:15
# "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) - 3:39
# "Good Morning Heartache" (Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham) - 6:10
# "Manhattan Hoedown" (Brian Torff) - 4:46
# "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) - 2:52
# "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) - 5:02
# "L.O.V.E" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) - 4:55
# "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 4:42
# "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) - 7:32

Personnel

Recorded April 16, 1982, in Los Angeles, USA:

* Mel Tormé - vocals
* George Shearing - piano
* Brian Torff - double bass

References