Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
Studio album by Mel Tormé
Released	1986
Recorded	May 1986
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	43:22
Label	Concord
Producer	Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
An Elegant Evening (1985) Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986) A Vintage Year (1987)

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Allmusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]

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.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46
2. "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55
3. "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30
4. "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37
5. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45
6. "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00
7. "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34
8. 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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