Writer Will Friedwald wrote in 'Jazz Singing,' "Tormé works with the most beautiful voice a man is allowed to have, and he combines it with a flawless sense of pitch... As an improviser he shames all but two or three other scat singers and quite a few horn players as well." Celebrating singer Mel Tormé's birthday (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999). Nicknamed "The Velvet Fog" in honor of his high tenor and smooth vocal style, he detested the nickname. He self-deprecatingly referred to it as "thi