Swingin' Talkin' Verve...various artists jazz/swing

 

Tracklist
1    Quincy Jones–    Air Mail Special    2:34
2    Louis Jordan–    Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens    2:32
3    The Lionel Hampton Big Orchestra*–    Flying House    3:14
4    Buddy Rich And His Orchestra–    Dateless Brown    3:16
5    Gene Krupa Big Band* With Anita O'Day And Roy Eldridge–    Let Me Off Uptown    3:20
6    Harry James And His Orchestra–    Crazy Rhythm    3:23
7    The Lionel Hampton Big Orchestra*–    The Blues Ain't News To Me    2:54
8    Buddy Rich Quartet–    Jumpin At The Woodside    10:04
9    Harry James And His Orchestra–    Back Beat Boogie    2:23
10    Louis Jordan–    Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?    3:16
11    Benny Goodman And His Orchestra–    Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts I and II)    14:25
12    Clarence Brown*–    Caldonia    4:31

 Swingin' Talkin' Verve

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Mel Torme..Swingin' On the Moon...classic album from 1960 on Verve

Mel Tormé was so outrageously talented that even the fans of his "velvet fog" timbre under-estimate him--undoubtedly the one singer who approaches Lady Ella in terms of his commanding musicianship, his voice and all that he could do with it. He had definitely reached his prime by 1960, and this Sinatra-type "concept album," an idea stolen from Frank, pre-dates by five years the album ("Moonlight Sinatra") Ole Blue devoted to moon songs. Either way you can't go wrong.

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.

Swingin' On the Moon