Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival explained

Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival
Type:	live
Artist:	Mel Tormé
Cover:	Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival.jpg
Released:	September 10, 2002
Recorded:	June 1993
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	55:07
Label:	Playboy Jazz
Prev Title:	An Evening with Mel Tormé
Prev Year:	1996

Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival is a 2002 live album by Mel Tormé, recorded at the Hollywood Bowl at the 1993 Playboy Jazz Festival.

Track listing

1. "Opus No. 1" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Sy Oliver) – 2:17
2. "I Had the Craziest Dream"/"Darn That Dream" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren)/(Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) – 4:52
3. "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" (Duke Ellington, Peggy Lee) – 3:06
4. Medley: "Sophisticated Lady"/"I Didn't Know About You" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish)/(Ellington, Bob Russell) – 5:25
5. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Ellington, Mills) – 5:29
6. Medley: "Stompin' at the Savoy"/"Don't Be That Way"/"And the Angels Sing" (Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson)/(Goodman, Sampson, Parish)/(Ziggy Elman, Johnny Mercer) – 14:38

Personnel

Performance

• Mel Tormé - vocals

Ray Anthony Orchestra:

• Ray Anthony - trumpet
• Kevin Anthony - saxophone
• Lee Callet
• Bob Efford
• Salvadore Lozano
• Roger Neumann
• Andy Martin - trombone
• Morris Repass
• Bill Tole
• Lloyd Ulyate
• Wayne Bergeron - trumpet
• Ramon Flores
• George Graham
• Frank Szabo
• John Colianni - piano
• Tom Ranier
• John Leitham - double bass
• Kirk Smith
• Frank Capp - drums
• Donny Osbourne

Production

• Glen Barros - executive producer
• John Burk - producer, executive producer
• George Wein - producer
• Valerie Whitesell - production coordination
• Hugh Hefner - liner notes, executive producer
• A. James Liska - liner notes
• Seth Presant - mastering, assembly