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Every Year at Christmas I Miss Mel Torme


 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Every Year at Christmas Time I Miss My Friend, Mel Torme
 
By Bill Cherry
           
            I’m never sure exactly when it’s going to happen, but every year at sometime during the Christmas season I realize how much I really miss my dear friend, jazz singer Mel Torme. 
 
            Mel knew more about the mixing of cord harmonies than anyone did before or has since.  He was the one who taught that art to bandleaders Les Baxter and Artie Shaw, and singers Ginny O’Connor (Henry Mancini’s wife), the Hi-Los and the Manhattan Transfer.  He’s the one who wrote the arrangements for Chico Marx’s band when Mel was but a teenager.
 
            And no one sung the songs of Christmas with more interpretive passion than Mel, even though he was Jewish.
 
            Mel’s also the one my business colleague of twenty-plus years ago, Carol Todreas, and I tromped on  many bitter-cold snowy nights from our Central Park South hotel to a small jazz club on Manhattan’s east side called Marty’s, to hear him front the George Shearing Trio, in a packed house that held no more ... more

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