NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Mel Torme' (born Melvin Howard Torme' on September 13, 1925 and died on June 5, 1999) was a singer, musician, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author (pretty good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mel Tormé would eventually compose hundreds of songs – but is best known for writing The Christmas Song - Martin Mills/Hulton ...

Hello, wonderful readers! To continue and hopefully conclude this melancholic March, let’s look at “It’s a Blue World” by Mel Tormé, an album by a semi-popular and underrated vocalist from the ...

I was never a big Mel Tormé fan. So many of his recordings were heavy-handed and overly rendered, like drowning perfectly good pancakes in a lake of syrup. The problem is that Tormé was an ...

Nicolas King did not know Mel Tormé, but that doesn’t make his presence in the program superfluous. As an entertainer who has leaned into this style of music, King has spent his life singing the songs ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Mel Torme's birthday today! Mel Torme was among the most enduring singers from the big-band era, maligned by some as the epitome of lounge singer, acclaimed by many more ...

In the late 1970s, I was living and working in Los Angeles, having recently finished attending college there. An acquaintance of mine, a member of a makeshift choir that sang Christmas carols at ...

If you’re a serious jazz singer, or listener, chances are you revere the work of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme. For Fitzgerald raised the art of scat singing — which involves inventing technically ...

Mel Torme, an inventive and gifted entertainer with a distinctive voice who became a favorite of several generations of music lovers, died Saturday morning. Torme’s death came at UCLA Medical Center, ...