hello yes most dont mel torme is the velvet fog,, & when he sings the goodbye look ,Wow just WOW

oh yeah the one & only MEL TORME

absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes except I heard DF in an interview say he was not a fan of scat singing

It seems to me this song was written for him! I think he also added a final verse, if I'm not mistaken...

And wrote his own final stanza.

I bet Donald loved it and was honored

Yeah, the piano player is incredible

Yes! This is great! And I like how Torme starts with the melody from Bernie's Tune -- very hip, and then plays with that same rhythm later in his improvisation. And the piano player -- he/she is burning it up!

@@80three57 who is that piano player?? Weapons grade man.

@@johnrapp1116 John Campbell! Super underrated. He's my second favorite, behind Russ Freeman who was the pianist for Chet Baker. if you like John's playing with Mel, I highly recommend checking out Russ Freeman. specifically his tune Band Aid is very similar bebop wise and nice.

Joe piscopo lol

Mel defines “cool,” baby!

the most fucking cool thing EVER

2 years ago, you wrote that this was the coolest thing on the internet. It still is. The Velvet Fog, indeed!

The drummer is what makes it for me. Subtle yet interesting.

@@skraegorn7317 -great band!

It was not written for him. That is why this is a tragedy.

It was written for anyone who loves a masterpiece tune and wants to make it their own.

@@SuperHugobox please check your underwear, it may be to tight

You are so right!!!

That’s a freskin’ TERRIC phrase: “litmus test of Badassery” - and you’re right!!! Tormé team, particularly his pianist are Badass Delicious,

Quite marvellous in every way!

" All the Americans are gone except for two"

Donald Fagen isn't dead.

@@wut6486 RIP Mel Torme.

He should have done "Mumbles"....

And some!

The master??? This sounds horrible in comparison to Fagen. BTW Becker had nothing to do with this song at any stage.

@@thomaselliott573 no knock on Donald, but he had he added benefits of the studio technology (layered taping, double tracking high end mics etc;) to augment his recording. Mel is doing this live Thomas. Your watching The Master do it on the spot. His phrasing, pitch, and scat singing are perfect. Not to mention his timing. Torme is that short list of great jazz vocalsts of the 20th century occupied by Sinatra, Bennett and Ray Charles. Ask any schooled jazz musician what they think of Mel Torme and their response is 'The Velvet Fog' was the master. Those aren't my words Thomas those are Donald Fagen's

@@spactick What a pity it was just rhetoric

This one's alright, but check out Skunk Baxter's covers of Do It Again and My Old School. That'll show some bad SD covers

@@thomaselliott573 Okay, it's from a Donald Fagen album, but Becker and Fagen worked together on all those great Steely Dan albums that incorporated jazz and used some of the greatest jazz studio musicians and artists of all time, whether Aja, Pretzel Logic, Gaucho. Try hearing any of those on jazz radio stations: you won't. They are never played as far as I know. No reason not to except for the snobby jazz show DJs on those stations who are "purists."

The original lyrics does have "pour me a Cuban breeze."

Agree but it’s arguably perfect for Torme’s (Japanese) audience. He’s really determined to get the story across and Fagen’s too oblique for some. I love how he scats the intro vibes solo and also the corny change from Gretchen to “baby”

@@charmerci Yeah, but it's not the same without Gretchen.

@staytunedfor I've never known it as being underrated. It received a lot of acclaim when it was released, and Steely Dan fans especially have praised it.

@@gasaholic47 Yeah. It's one of the more acclaimed 80s Albums. If you wanna see an underrated Album, look at 2003's "everything must go". Never understood why they bashed it.

@@kaustik185 Have it. Like it.

@@gasaholic47 well of course you do

@@gasaholic47 Obligatory KZfaq comment - "most underated group/album/musician". You know, like The Beatles lol. (apparently OP was embarrassed enough to remove the comment)

Has Cleo Laine done this song??

Same here, Mel at his very best!

On Fagen's The Nightfly album, those two songs are sequential, one about (hopefully) escaping Cuba in the nick of time, the other about subsequently arriving in Miami, reuniting with a loved one.

Thanks I didn’t know he did “walk between the raindrops” I’m pretty sure the title is taken from a late 50’s book about Zen!

erik mak, I was there too in Amsterdam! Amazing evening! Saw him later in Carré as well, shook his hand and got an autograph ;-)

marcel de kleijn I was in Carré also. A good concert but not as magical as Tuschinski (perhaps the best concert i saw in my life) Saw him in New York a few years later with a quintet in Michaels Pub two times with a Benny Goodman oriented concert. A very very fast concert. Best singer of popular music in my opinion. Own most of his cd’s and all of his books. IT,s a pity that it’s not possible to but a good concert dvd from Mel in Europe. But KZfaq is a great substitute.

Nobody better? You should have checked out Liane Caroll's cover version before you said that :)

@@busylizzie2009 On your recommendation I did - she's great!

The great John Campbell.

never knew that was a quote sweet

@@GabeKMusic its subtle but I picked up on it. 😀

Mel Torme and The Deductible Trio.

Where was this performed?

I had no idea,thanks !

great? ha! I think a lot of Cubans might disagree with you

@@spactick Some would. Many won't.

​@@jaysonbiggs8979most would, because communism sucks

Bass player put it in cruise control. Amazing performance of this song!

The previous uploader of this the video concert a Japanese guy said its entitled from memory 'Reunion' ?

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