Melvin Howard Tormé,nicknamed "the Velvet Fog",was an American musician,singer,composer,arranger,drummer,actor,and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Torméwon two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times.
Robert Lrod Dorough was an American bebop and cool jazz vocalist,pianist,and composer. He became famous as the composer and performer of songs in the TV series Schoolhouse Rock!,as well as for his work with Miles Davis,Blossom Dearie,and others.
David Lee Frishberg was an American jazz pianist,vocalist,composer,and lyricist. His songs have been performed by Blossom Dearie,Rosemary Clooney,Shirley Horn,Anita O'Day,Michael Feinstein,Irene Kral,Diana Krall,Rebecca Kilgore,Stacey Kent,Bette Midler,John Pizzarelli,Jessica Molaskey,and Mel Tormé.
Martin Louis Paich was an American pianist,composer,arranger,record producer,music director,and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee,Ella Fitzgerald,Stan Kenton,Al Hirt,Art Pepper,Buddy Rich,Ray Brown,Shorty Rogers,Pete Rugolo,Ray Charles and Mel Tormé. His long association with Torméincluded one of the singer's earliest albums,Mel Torméwith the Marty Paich Dek-Tette. Over the next three decades he worked with pop singers such as Andy Williams and Jack Jones and for film and television. He is the father of David Paich,a founding member of the rock band Toto.
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" is a popular song and jazz standard,with music written by Duke Ellington,Johnny Hodges,and Harry James and lyrics by Don George and published in 1944.
No Strings is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. No Strings is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music,and the first musical he composed after the death of his long-time collaborator,Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical opened on Broadway in 1962 and ran for 580 performances. It received six Tony Award nominations,winning three,for Best Leading Actress in a Musical,Best Original Score and Best Choreography.
"Right Now" is an uptempo 1962 jazz/pop song with music by Herbie Mann and lyrics by Carl Sigman. As a jazz instrumental,it was the title track of Right Now,a 1962 bossa nova-style album by Mann. Later that same year,with lyrics by Sigman,the song was popularized by jazz singer Mel Torméon his album Comin' Home Baby!,and was the B-side of the single featuring the title track.
The Cookies were an American R&B girl group active in two distinct lineups,the first from 1954 to 1958 which later became The Raelettes,and the second from 1961 to 1967. Several of the members of both lineups were members of the same family. Both lineups were most prominent as session singers and backing vocalists.
Comin' Home Baby! is a 1962 studio album by Mel Tormé.
Benjamin M. Tucker was an American jazz bassist who appeared on hundreds of recordings. Tucker played on albums by Art Pepper,Billy Taylor,Quincy Jones,Grant Green,Dexter Gordon,Hank Crawford,Junior Mance,and Herbie Mann.
Right Now! is a 1966 studio album by Mel Tormé. Columbia followed up Tormé's 1965 album of standards with "an obvious bid to sell records by putting Tormé's voice on pre-sold hits of the mid-'60s." "The Velvet Fog's" descent on contemporary middle-of-the-road top-40 melodies from Paul Simon and the Bacharach-David catalogue leads some to emphasize the commercialism of the project and file this period of Tormé's career in the lounge music section of records stores,as evidenced by his appearances on compilations like the Ultra Lounge series. However,music critic Will Friedwald makes a strong case that the work of Torméand arranger Mort Garson elevated the project above "an album of straight "covers"."
Jingle Bell Jazz is a collection of jazz versions of Christmas songs recorded between 1959 and 1962 by some of the most popular artists on the Columbia label. It was released on October 17,1962.
Herbie Mann at the Village Gate is a 1961 live album by jazz flutist Herbie Mann which was his third album for Atlantic Records,the main label for much of his career. The album was recorded at legendary club The Village Gate.
Frank Haynes,Jr. was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.
2 Feet in the Gutter is the final album led by jazz drummer Dave Bailey which was originally released on the Epic label in 1961. The album features the first recording of "Comin' Home Baby" which became a top 40 hit for Mel Tormé.
"Hi-Fly" is one of the best known compositions by American jazz pianist Randy Weston,written in the 1950s and inspired by his experience of being 6 feet 8 inches tall,"and how the ground looks different to you than everybody else". Since first being recorded on 1958's New Faces at Newport,"Hi-Fly" appears on several other albums by Weston,including Live at the Five Spot (1959),Niles Littlebig (1969),Tanjah (1973),Perspective,Rhythms and Sounds (1978),Earth Birth (1995),Zep Tepi (2005),and The Storyteller (2009).
Standing Ovation at Newport is a live album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1965 for the Atlantic label.
The Beat Goes On is an album by American jazz flautist Herbie Mann released on the Atlantic label in 1967. The album features tracks from seven separate sessions recorded in 1964,1966 and 1967.
Waterbed is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1975 and released on the Atlantic label.
Swing is the fifteenth and final studio album by Australian soul and R&B singer Renée Geyer. The album was released on 19 April 2013 and peaked at number 22 on the ARIA Charts.
