A Vintage Year

A Vintage Year
A Vintage Year
Live album by Mel Tormé
Released	1988
Recorded	August 1987
Venue	Paul Masson Winery, Saratoga, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:31
Label	Concord
Producer	Carl Jefferson
Mel Tormé chronology

Released1988

RecordedAugust 1987

VenuePaul Masson Winery, Saratoga, CA

GenreJazz

A Vintage Year is a 1987 live album by the American jazz singer Mel Tormé, accompanied by George Shearing.

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v t e George Shearing
Studio albums	Midnight on Cloud 69 (1956) Black Satin (1956) In the Night (1956) Latin Lace (1958) Beauty and the Beat! (1959) The Shearing Touch (1960) Latin Affair (1960) White Satin (1960) George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers (1961) Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays (1961) The Swingin's Mutual! (1961) Shearing Bossa Nova (1962) Touch Me Softly (1963) Old Gold and Ivory (1963) Out of the Woods (1964) New Look! (1967) The Heart and Soul of Joe Williams and George Shearing (1971) Music to Hear (1972) Continental Experience (1975) The Reunion (1976) Two for the Road (1980) On a Clear Day (1980) First Edition (1981) Top Drawer (1983) An Elegant Evening (1985) Grand Piano (1985) George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter (1986) More Grand Piano (1986) Breakin' Out (1987) The Spirit of 176 (1988) George Shearing in Dixieland (1989) Piano (1989) The Rare Delight of You (2002) Hopeless Romantics (2005)
Live albums	On the Sunny Side of the Strip (1960) Jazz Concert (1963) Rare Form! (1966) Blues Alley Jazz (1979) An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982) The Classic Concert Live (1982) An Evening at Charlie's (1983) Live at the Café Carlyle (1984) A Vintage Year (1987) A Perfect Match (1988) Dexterity (1988) Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990) The Rare Delight of You (2002) Hopeless Romantics (2005)
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v t e Mel Tormé
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	It's a Blue World (1955) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (1956) Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956) Mel Tormé's California Suite (1957) Prelude to a Kiss (1957) Tormé Meets the British (1957) Tormé (1958) Back in Town (1959) ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (1959) Broadway, Right Now! (1961) Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1960) I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! (1960–61) Swingin' on the Moon (and Margaret Whiting, 1960–61) My Kind of Music (1961) Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York (1963) That's All (1964–66) Right Now! (1966) A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde (1968) Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969) Tormé: A New Album (1977) Together Again: For the First Time/When I Found You (and Buddy Rich, 1978) Top Drawer (and George Shearing, 1983) Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1988) Nothing Without You (and Cleo Laine, 1991) Christmas Songs (1992) A Tribute to Bing Crosby (1994) Velvet & Brass ( and Rob McConnell, 1995)
Live albums	Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1955) Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957) Songs for Any Taste (1957) Mel Tormé at the Red Hill (1962) Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette (1975) An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982) The Classic Concert Live (and Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, 1982) An Evening at Charlie's (and George Shearing, 1983) A Vintage Year (and George Shearing, 1987) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo (1988) Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990) Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990) Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990) Sing Sing Sing (1992) Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (1993) The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub (1992) An Evening with Mel Tormé (1996) Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (2001)
Selected singles	"Comin' Home Baby" (1962)

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