Tormé

[ tawr-mey ]

noun

1. Melvin Howard MelThe Velvet Fog, 1925–99, U.S. jazz singer, actor, and composer.

Example Sentences

At 66, the trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader has collaborated with everyone from Mel Tormé to LL Cool J. A founding member of the Klezmatics, a band that helped to revitalize the klezmer style during the late ’80s, London has worked for decades at a fertile crossroads where Jewish music meets downtown jazz.

From New York Times

It’s been performed by acts as varied as Mel Tormé, Weezer, Miley Cyrus and the punk band Simple Plan.

From New York Times

There were the parties, where the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Tormé would gather around the piano and sing.

From New York Times

There was Sinatra, obviously, and Dean Martin and Doris Day, who were as big on screen as they were on record — but also Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters, Mel Tormé and Merv Griffin, Frankie Laine and Perry Como.

From Los Angeles Times

Soundtrack choices range from cheeky, Mel Tormé’s “Nice Work if You Can Get It” and Frank Sinatra belting “I’ve Got the World on a String,” to the more sincere and soul searching in Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee’s cover of “Farewell Transmission” and Ellen McIlwaine’s 1972 heartbreaker “Can’t Find My Way Home.”

From Seattle Times