Tormé

[tawr-mey]

noun

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

Example Sentences

They’re not my go-to for that style of music — I play them less than I do Tony Bennett or Mel Tormé.

From Los Angeles Times

“I grew up on a farm, listening almost exclusively to legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé and Duke Ellington,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

As always, the blissful artistry of “Severance” is in the details – the completed circle of Mark opening the season with a mad dash through the halls and ending it hand in hand with Helly, jogging to who knows where as Mel Tormé croons a wending carpet of easy listening psychedelia behind them.

From Salon

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