Songs for Any Taste is a 1957 live album by Mel Tormé, recorded at the Crescendo Club.
| Songs for Any Taste | ||||
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | 1957 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 26:22 | |||
| Label | Bethlehem | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Interspersed with studio recordings, this is one of three albums that Tormé released with material from his appearances at the club.[2]
A 1960 review in The Tatler and Bystander by Gerald David Lascelles praised Tormé as matching the "swinging vitality" of Frank Sinatra and "[taking] off a long limb in the cause of jazz" as he "underlines the whole with a sense of humour". Lascelles praised the "biting" string arrangements of Marty Paich on Songs for Any Taste.[3] It was recommended by Howard Keith in a 1960 review in the Sunday Dispatch and was a 'Pic of the Discs' in The Sunday Mirror in March 1960, and recommended in The Coventry Evening Telegraph.[4][5][6]
The album was reissued in 2001.[7] A 2001 review of Songs for Any Taste in The Philadelphia Inquirer described it as"remind[ing] anyone within earshot of [Torme's] glittering talent" and that it was a "beguiling set". The short 26 minute length of the album was lamented.[7]
Track listing
edit- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 1:32
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 2:31
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:18
- "It's De-Lovely" (Cole Porter) – 2:42
- "It's All Right with Me" (Porter) – 4:28
- "Manhattan" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:14
- "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) – 2:28
- "Home by the Sea" (Fetter, Lewing) – 1:24
- "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:24
- "Nobody's Heart" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:21
Personnel
edit- Mel Tormé - vocals, drums
- Don Fagerquist - trumpet
- Howard McGhee
- Larry Bunker - accordion, bongos, vibraphone
- Max Bennett - double bass
- Stan Levey - drums
- Mel Lewis - drums
- Ralph Sharon - piano
- Marty Paich - arranger, conductor
References
edit- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ Songs For Any Taste at AllMusic
- ↑ "Records". The Tatler and Bystander. April 27, 1960. Retrieved April 12, 2026.
- ↑ "The Critics: Discs". The Sunday Dispatch. March 13, 1960. Retrieved April 12, 2026.
- ↑ "Pic of the Discs". The Sunday Mirror. March 27, 1960. Retrieved April 12, 2026.
- ↑ "Records". The Coventry Evening Telegraph. March 11, 1960. Retrieved April 12, 2026.
- 1 2 "Playlist". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 23, 2001. Retrieved April 12, 2026.