title: Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
text: # Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
  
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  Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass is a 1986 studio album by Mel Tormé, accompanied by Rob McConnell's Boss Brass Big band. Tormé and McConnell's follow up album, Velvet & Brass was released in 1995.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46
  * "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55
  * "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30
  * "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37
  * "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45
  * "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00
  * "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34
  * Duke Ellington Medley: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"/"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"/"Mood Indigo"/"Take the "A" Train"/"Sophisticated Lady"/"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Barney Bigard, Ellington, Mills]])/(Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish)/(Strayhorn, Ellington, Johnny Mercer) - 12:15
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Recorded May 1986, in Los Angeles, U.S.:
  
  * Mel Tormé - vocals
  
  ### The Boss Brass
  
  * Arnie Chycoski - trumpet, flugelhorn
  * Erich Traugott
  * John MacLeod
  * Ian McDougall - trombone
  * Dave McMurdo
  * Bob Livingston
  * Ron Hughes - bass trombone
  * James MacDonald - french horn
  * Eugene Amaro - flute, tenor saxophone
  * Moe Koffman - clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  * Bob Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  * Rick Wilkins - clarinet, tenor saxophone
  * Dave Woods - trumpet, violin, flugelhorn
  * Robert Leonard - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
  * George Stimpson
  * Jerry Toth - flute, alto clarinet
  * Jimmy Dale - piano, electric piano
  * Guido Basso - harmonica, trumpet, flugelhorn
  * Ed Bickert - guitar
  * Jerry Fuller - drums
  * Brian Leonard - percussion
  * Steve Wallace - double bass
  * Rob McConnell - arranger, conductor, trombone
  