An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé

An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé
Live album by Mel Tormé
Released	1982
Recorded	April 15, 1982
Genre	Vocal jazz, Jazz
Length	38:41
Label	Concord
Producer	Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
The Classic Concert Live (1982) An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1983) Top Drawer (1983)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé is a live album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.^[1]

It was the first of six albums that Tormé and Shearing recorded together for Concord Records, and Tormé's performance on this album won him the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male at the 25th Grammy Awards.

Track listing

1. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Walter Jermann, Gus Kahn, Bronisław Kaper) – 3:37
2. "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Bob Wells) – 5:15
3. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 3:39
4. "Good Morning Heartache" (Dan Fisher, Ervin Drake, Irene Higginbotham) – 6:10
5. "Manhattan Hoedown" (Brian Torff) – 4:46
6. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 2:52
7. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 5:02
8. "Love" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:55
9. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:42
10. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) – 7:32

Personnel

• Mel Tormé - vocals
• George Shearing - piano
• Brian Torff - double bass

References

1. Yanow, Scott. "Review: An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
2. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 178. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.