Hello, wonderful readers! To continue and hopefully conclude this melancholic March, let’s look at “It’s a Blue World” by Mel Tormé, an album by a semi-popular and underrated vocalist from the ...

As Mr. Comstock has said in dozens of shows at Birdland and elsewhere, “We met on Nat King Cole’s birthday — known in some homes as St. Patrick’s Day — had our first date on September 13, Mel Torme’s ...