A Vintage Year

A Vintage Year
Live album by Mel Tormé
Released	1988
Recorded	August 1987
Venue	Paul Masson Winery, Saratoga, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:31
Label	Concord
Producer	Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology
Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986) A Vintage Year (1988) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1990)

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

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

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

• Mel Tormé – vocals
• George Shearing – piano
• Jennifer (John) Leitham – double bass
• Donny Osborne – drums