Fujitsu-Concord Festival (1990)

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  • Live at the Crescendo
  • It's a Blue World
  • Sings Fred Astaire
  • Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-tette
  • At the Crescendo
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • Songs for Any Taste
  • Mel Tormé's California Suite [Bethlehem]
  • Tormé
  • Olé Tormé
  • Back in Town
  • Swings Shubert Alley
  • Swingin' on the Moon
  • Broadway, Right Now!
  • My Kind of Music
  • I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count!
  • The Duke Ellington and Count Basie Songbooks
  • Mel Tormé at the Red Hill
  • Comin' Home Baby!
  • Sings Sunday in New York and Other Songs About New York
  • That's All
  • Right Now!
  • A Time for Us (Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet)
  • Mel Torme At The Red Hill/Live At The Maisonette
  • The London Sessions
  • Together Again: For the First Time
  • Encore at Marty's, New York
  • An Evening With George Shearing & Mel Torme
  • Top Drawer
  • An Evening at Charlie's
  • An Elegant Evening
  • Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
  • Reunion
  • In Concert Tokyo
  • A Vintage Year
  • Night at the Concord Pavilion
  • Fujitsu-Concord Festival (1990)
  • Mel and George "Do" World War II
  • Nothing Without You
  • Christmas Songs
  • Sing, Sing, Sing: Live at the Fujitsu Festival 1992
  • The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub
  • A Tribute to Bing Crosby
  • Velvet & Brass
  • A&E Presents an Evening With Mel Tormé: Live From the Disney Institute
  • In New York
  • Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
  • The Classic Concert Live
  • Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette [Blue Note Japan]

Release Date

November 11, 1990

Duration

52:10

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

1990
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Mel Tormé

Fujitsu-Concord Festival (1990)

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In 1990, a few months prior to this CD, Mel Tormé recorded a set with his trio at the Concord Jazz Festival, which climaxed with three songs with the Frank Wess-Harry Edison Orchestra. This particular CD is similar and just as enjoyable. With the assistance of pianist John Campbell, bassist Bob Maize, and drummer Donny Osborne, Tormé is swinging on "Shine on Your Shoes" and a medley of "Don't 'Cha Go 'Way Mad" and "Come to Baby Do." But it is his remarkable ballad renditions of "Star Dust" (during which Frank Wess sits in on tenor) and a definitive "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" that are most memorable; no other vocalist can hold notes so long. This time, the big band is led only by Wess, and in addition to vocal versions of "You're Driving Me Crazy" and "Sent for You Yesterday," Tormé happily sits in on drums for "Swingin' the Blues," which has a trumpet solo by Joe Newman. Virtually everything Mel Tormé has recorded for Concord is quite rewarding; this is one of his best all-around sets.

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
1
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
Mel Tormé
3:19
2
Irving Berlin / Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley
Mel Tormé
4:34
3
Eric Maschwitz / Manning Sherwin
Mel Tormé
4:45
4
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Mel Tormé
5:45
5
Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish
Mel Tormé
6:02
6
James Mundy / Al Stillman
Mel Tormé
3:51
7
Joseph Kosma / Johnny Mercer / Jacques Prévert / Mel Tormé / Robert Wells
Mel Tormé
6:59
8
Walter Donaldson / Benny Moten
Mel Tormé
6:21
9
Count Basie / Eddie Durham / Jimmy Rushing
Mel Tormé
4:26
10
Count Basie / Eddie Durham / Jon Hendricks
Mel Tormé
4:40
11
Billy Joel
Mel Tormé
5:27
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