Mel Torme: Sings About Love

I was never a big Mel Tormé fan. So many of his recordings were heavy-handed and overly rendered, like drowning perfectly good pancakes in a lake of syrup. The problem is that Tormé was an incorrigible ham. Born with vocal gifts he maximized early, Tormé was reflexively intent on rubbing everyone's face in it. The hustler never stopped hustling. All of …