Mel Torme & George Shearing - Just One of Those Things Recorded Live: 8/18/1989 - Newport Jazz Festival - Newport, RI More Mel Torme & George Shearing at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
Tone and phrasing are outrageous. Unlike so many, just got better with time. A blind man and a short guy named Melvin making greatness to live forever.
Mel was a real Jazz singer. Meaning, he could improvise his vocals in lyrics, notes and in scat singing. Pop singers today don't even know what I'm talking about, let alone actually do these things.
2:55- Four Brothers 3:05- How High the Moon (in the bass) 3:10- On Green Dolphin Street 3:43- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (tag) These guys are pure geniuses!
oh yes .... there is no one like Mel Torme and I love to listen to him. Saw a couple of his shows many years ago with George Shearing and they were so great.
My initiation through childhood in the 60’s in Scotland were my fathers LP’s of Mel. I got a record player, my parents, before they upgraded, and played Mel’s music when I was 11. Mesmerising Mel X
It was just one of those things Just one of those crazy flings One of those bells that now and then rings Just one of those things It was just one of those nights Just one of those fabulous flights A trip to the moon on gossamer wings Just one of those things If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it When we started painting the town We'd have been aware that our love affair Was too hot, not to cool down So goodbye, dear, and Amen Here's hoping we meet now and then It was great fun But it was just one of those things
Mel was the best, from the days when singing meant singing. Not like these idiots on X Factor, the Voice or Britain's got talent who seem to think that screaming and wailing is the way to do it. You know what mean. They should all be forced to watch Mel, Sarah Vaughan and Neets to learn how to deliver a song. The shit we have to put up with today is shocking.
I couldn’t have put it better myself !!!!!! I am a classically trained tenor and am using the same technique for performing jazz and it’s exhilarating!!!!!!!!!! I’m gonna stick to it !!! Watch this space !!!🎉😅
Torme too good. Could scat with Ella! Shearing with his locked hands technique/the best that ever was! Their quality has never been matched~~~~and never will be!!!
Just to add to my previous comment, I recall Mel Torme being interviewed by Larry King (close to this time - maybe a year later). Anyway, Larry King asked Mel Torme how he was "compensating" for the "decline of his voice" during his current concert tour. It was such a loaded/stupid question (well it was Larry King, mind you) Mel defended himself - and the proof is right here in this clip. Mel Torme never lost a vocal step.
He was singing and rapping before rapping even existed. ;) (aka scatting) Mel's was a really talented guy... the actor Harry Anderson of Night Court fame was a huge Torme fan, even got him on the show many times. There are re-runs of Night Court currently on the LAFF tv channel.
@@johnmc3862 totally harsh - yet another sad RU-vid comment from a guy who lives in his mother’s basement at the age of 53, at least he got promoted to manager at the Taco Bell
I do respect Mr Sinatra, but I enjoy much more the one and only Mel Torme. If I had to watch one of both live, Mel would have been my choice no doubt, 1 and 10 times and more.
Sinatra gets too much credit. Ya he's great and he's the main guy but Sinatra was not so great a singer compared to Torme. Mel had it all. Smooth, swinging, scat master, heavy dramatic, complex phrasing, he used his voice in many different ways. His voice was like a damn trumpet when he would scat. Sinatra sings the same way in every song.
