Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
# Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass

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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.

## Track listing

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