finetune artist: Mel Torme/Marty Paich

b. Melvin Howard Torme, 13 September 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 5 June 1999, Beverly Hills, California, USA. A child prodigy, Torm first sang on radio as a toddler and while still in his teens he was performing as a singer, pianist, drummer and dancer. He was also composing songs at an early age and wrote arrangements for the band led by Chico Marx, and composed "Lament To Love" for Harry James. He also acted on radio and in films and in addition to singing solo, led his own vocal group, the Mel-Tones. In this last capacity he recorded with Artie Shaw, enjoying a hit with "Sunny Side Of The Street'. By the 50s he was established as one of the leading song stylists, performing the great standards and often working with a jazz backing, notably with the Marty Paich Dek-tette on albums such as Lulu's Back In Town. He headlined concert packages across the USA and in Europe, appeared on television, often producing his own shows, and always delivering performances of impeccable professionalism. Torm continued in such a vein throughout the 60s and 70s, making many fine albums of superior popular music, on several of which he was accompanied by jazzmen. Among these were Shorty Rogers ("Round Midnight), Al Porcino (Live At The Maisonette), Buddy Rich (Together Again - For The First Time), Gerry Mulligan (Mel Torm And Friends) and Rob McConnell (Mel Torm With Rob McConnell And The Boss Brass).

Listen to Mel Torme/Marty Paich at Finetune.

(1988) In Concert Tokyo

More Than You Know
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
On the Street Where You Live
Just In Time
Sweet Georgia Brown

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