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Cocktail Hour: Mel Torme
Mel Torme
Cocktail Hour: Mel Torme
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
  •  Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (14) - Disc #2

The man whose voice earned him the nickname "Velvet Fog" had a long and productive career, not only as a consummate jazz crooner, but as writer and arranger as well. Much of the material featured on this budget-priced two-...  more »

     
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All Artists: Mel Torme
Title: Cocktail Hour: Mel Torme
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Columbia River Ent.
Original Release Date: 1/11/2000
Release Date: 1/11/2000
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 723723713520

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The man whose voice earned him the nickname "Velvet Fog" had a long and productive career, not only as a consummate jazz crooner, but as writer and arranger as well. Much of the material featured on this budget-priced two-CD set is from Torme's earlier period, specifically the 1940s and early '50s. His voice is smooth and flexible, containing more honey than fog and has a boyish, romantic quality. Couple that with the lush strings and brassy, Vegas-like backgrounds, and you have the perfect prescription for those after-work blahs. Torme's way with "Little White Lies" and "You're Driving Me Crazy" is insouciantly sassy, but he shifts gears easily to heartfelt yearning on "Blue Moon" and "Born to Be Blue" and then to some upbeat, finger-snapping on "Three Little Words." Plus, the album contains his No. 1 hit from 1949, "Careless Hands." Much of the second disc finds Mel in a mellow mood--need we suggest, say, champagne on ice? As with the other Cocktail Hour sets, this one comes with an abundance of music but a paucity of information about it. The set lets the music do the talking. --Wally Shoup

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William Y. Cartwright | Cincinnati, OH USA | 11/20/2000
(1 out of 5 stars)

"It's a double CD at a bargain price but it's not a bargain. I checked out the first CD and discovered the 2 of the tracks were without Mel Torme. Studio orchestra is mostly strings and the overall quality and frequency response left much to be desired. There were no liner notes about the CD."