A Vintage Year Explained

A Vintage Year
Type:live
Artist:Mel Tormé
Cover:a vintage year.jpg
Released:1988
Recorded:August 1987
Venue:Paul Masson Winery, Saratoga, CA
Genre:Jazz
Length:54:31
Label:Concord
Producer:Carl Jefferson
Prev Title:Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion
Next Year:1990

A Vintage Year is a 1987 live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

Track listing

  1. "Whisper Not"/"Love Me or Leave Me" (Benny Golson, Leonard Feather), (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:17
  2. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:11
  3. "Someday I'll Find You" (Noël Coward) – 2:52
  4. "Midnight Sun" (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Mercer) – 5:36
  5. New York, New York Medley: "For Me and My Gal"/"Mack the Knife"/"The Birth of the Blues"/"Send a Little Love My Way"/"How High the Moon"/"Theme from New York, New York" (Ray Goetz, Edgar Leslie, George Meyer)/(Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein, Kurt Weill)/(Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Henderson)/(Henry Mancini)/(Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis)/(Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 6:01
  6. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:08
  7. "Bittersweet" (Sam Jones) – 5:47
  8. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 4:40
  9. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Kern) – 3:37
  10. "Anyone Can Whistle"/"A Tune for Humming" (Stephen Sondheim)/(Sondheim) – 5:53
  11. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 3:29
  12. "Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day" (Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler, Mabel Wayne) – 5:55

Personnel