Velvet-voiced Mel Tormé sabotaged his own career – and had a very strange addiction One hundred years on from the singer’s birth, we look back at his music, quarrels and addiction to a certain British ...

As Concord re-releases some of its classic Mel Tormé albums, it becomes increasingly clear to even the most casual listener that he improved with age. Like the very best of the big band singers, and ...

Hello, wonderful readers! To continue and hopefully conclude this melancholic March, let’s look at “It’s a Blue World” by Mel Tormé, an album by a semi-popular and underrated vocalist from the ...

Back in '82 when this concert was recorded at Carnegie Hall, Mel Tormé was just starting his vocal ascent out of a slump by beginning a long and fruitful musical friendship with pianist George ...

Mel Tormé would eventually compose hundreds of songs – but is best known for writing The Christmas Song - Martin Mills/Hulton Archive Marking the centenary of the birth of Mel Tormé is bound to ...