Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass

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

 * 1) "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) - 4:46
 * 2) "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 4:55
 * 3) "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 4:30
 * 4) "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:37
 * 5) "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:45
 * 6) "Cow Cow Boogie" (Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 4:00
 * 7) "Handful of Stars"/"Stars Fell on Alabama (Jack Lawrence, Ted Shapiro)/(Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 5:34
 * 8) Duke Ellington Medley: "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"/"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"/"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"/"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)/(Ellington, Bob Russell)/(Ellington, Russell)/(Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) - 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