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Mel Tormé: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 03, 08

Tempo? Faaast! Vocal phrasing? Impressive—and each word sounds crystal clear! Arrangement? Both refined and punchy! S...

Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): The Carioca (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Whoever doubts Mel Tormé's skill as a jazz singer should listen to the first 25 seconds of this track, where he sings...

Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): Lulu's Back in Town (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

I've never much cared for "back in town" songs. Whether it's Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" or just Matt D...

Mel Tormé: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

For a certain kind of jazz at a certain point in history, this may be a pinnacle. "West Coast Jazz" with its occasion...

Gerry Mulligan: A Ballad (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

As chief arranger and co-principal soloist, Gerry Mulligan helped deliver Miles Davis's obstetric triumph Birth of th...

Lennie Niehaus: Bunko (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

The first track Lennie Niehaus recorded as a leader was a sprightly "I'll Take Romance." Well, I'll take Niehaus, and...

Jeri Southern (with Marty Paich's Dek-tette): Lazy Bones (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

I suppose it was inevitable that the two most "homespun" of song composers, Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, would...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

The Hi-Lo's: The Lady in Red (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 03, 07

The Hi-Lo's were a peppy 1950s male vocal quartet whose name was self-descriptive: one guy sang high, another sang lo...

Terry Gibbs: Opus One (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Terry Gibbs played vibraphone in many big bands, including Benny Goodman’s and Woody Herman’s, but for a while a...

Mel Torme & The Marty Paich Dek-tette: Lullaby Of Birdland (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

“Lullaby of Birdland” is an anomaly in the recordings of Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-tette. Although Mel’s scat...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Bill Holman: Donna Lee (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

The veteran arranger Bill Holman is considered by many to be the best in the business, whether writing for Stan Kento...

Smith, Putter (Patrick Verne) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Smith, Putter (Patrick Verne), bass; b. Bell, CA, 19 January 1941. Smith is the younger brother of Carson Smith. H...

Marty Paich: Violets for Your Furs (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Art Pepper was a leading West Coast alto saxophonist during the 1950s before personal problems removed him from the s...

Art Pepper: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Due to what the 1950s jazz press euphemistically called "personal problems," the once-prolific Art Pepper made just o...

Erroll Garner: Theme from A New Kind of Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

Released in 1963, the comedic film A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, featured original co...

Mel Tormé & Marty Paich's Dek-tette posted in Features and Interviews August 21, 08

By Thomas Cunniffe From the early fifties until his death in 1995, Marty Paich was one of the top arrang...

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