Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass is a 1986 studio album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by Rob McConnell's Boss Brass Big band. Tormé and McConnell's follow up album, Velvet & Brass was released in 1995.
Track listing "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46 "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55 "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30 "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37 "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45 "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00 "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34 Duke Ellington Medley: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"/"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"/"Mood Indigo"/"Take the "A" Train"/"Sophisticated Lady"/"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Barney Bigard, Ellington, Mills]])/(Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish)/(Strayhorn, Ellington, Johnny Mercer) - 12:15
Personnel Recorded May 1986, in Los Angeles, U.S.:
Mel Tormé - vocals The Boss Brass Arnie Chycoski - trumpet, flugelhorn Erich Traugott John MacLeod Ian McDougall - trombone Dave McMurdo Bob Livingston Ron Hughes - bass trombone James MacDonald - french horn Eugene Amaro - flute, tenor saxophone Moe Koffman - clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone Bob Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone Rick Wilkins - clarinet, tenor saxophone Dave Woods - trumpet, violin, flugelhorn Robert Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone George Stimpson Jerry Toth - flute, alto clarinet Jimmy Dale - piano, electric piano Guido Basso - harmonica, trumpet, flugelhorn Ed Bickert - guitar Jerry Fuller - drums Brian Leonard - percussion Steve Wallace - double bass Rob McConnell - arranger, conductor, trombone
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