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Melvin Howard "Mel" Tormé (September 13, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois; June 5, 1999 in Los Angeles, California) was an American singer in the field of jazz and pop music, who also appeared as a drummer, composer, arranger, author and actor. Mel Tormé, the son of Russian immigrants, sang for several months with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra at the age of 4. Like his colleagues Mickey Rooney and Sammy Davis Jr., he worked as a child star in radio series because he grew up in an active artistic environment. From the age of seven he switched to drums before trying his hand at singing again. He recorded his first record at the age of 15 with Harry James. In 1942 Ben Pollack brought him into the Chico Marx Orchestra. Tormé made his film acting debut in 1943 alongside Frank Sinatra in the film Higher and Higher. Shortly before his draft into the US Army, and again in 1947, he formed the vocal group Mel-Tones with Les Baxter and Ginny O'Connor; his first recordings were made for Jewell and Decca Records, and after the Second World War for Musicraft Records, sometimes accompanied by Artie Shaw's orchestra. Carlos Gastel, who had already promoted the careers of Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, brought him to Capitol Records and MGM, who promoted him as a pop star; but after a few years Tormé decided to work with smaller labels and to move more towards jazz again. Albums such as Musical Sounds Are the Best Songs for Coral in 1954 and It's a Blue World on Bethlehem followed. In the mid-1950s he played with Marty Paich in the band Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dektette; They recorded four albums together, including Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (Bethlehem, 1956) and on Verve Tormé (1958), Back in Town (1959) and, as the climax and reunion of the Mel-Tones, Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley, in which Paich and Tormé worked on Broadway songs such as Comden/Green's "Just in Time", "Too Darn Hot", Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee" and Frank Loesser's "Once in Love with Amy". Their accompanying musicians included Art Pepper, Frank Rosolino, Red Callender and Mel Lewis. In 1963 and 1964 Tormé worked as a writer for the Judy Garland Show, in which he also appeared. He later processed the experiences in the book The Other Side of the Rainbow. In the 1960s, further productions were made for Atlantic and Columbia with studio orchestras, led by Shorty Rogers and Al Porcino, among others. In the late 1970s, Tormé began an intensive collaboration with the pianist George Shearing and his band; from this time on he also wrote his own arrangements. In the 1980s, a series of albums were made for Concord Jazz, including with the Rob McConnell Big Band. In 1988, he recorded the reunion album with West Coast musicians such as Bob Enevoldsen, Jack Sheldon and Pete Jolly. In the 1990s, he worked with Cleo Laine (Nothing Without You) and Ken Peplowski (Sing, Sing; Sing); his last album was Velvet and Brass, recorded for Concord in July 1995. In August 1996, Mel Tormé was supposed to open the Newport Jazz Festival together with George Shearing. But the concert had to be cancelled at the last minute: Tormé had suffered a stroke. He never recovered from it: As a result, the singer was no longer able to perform live. Mel Tormé died on June 5, 1999 as a result of another stroke.