A Tribute To Mel Torme With Robert Johnson at Dazzle Jazz Club

Robert Johnson’s voice can be heard everywhere. As a vocalist he’s shared the stage with Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Mangione, Stan Getz, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer and countless more. He’s appeared in national and regional productions of Porgy and Bess, Ain’t Misbehavin, A Brief History Of White Music, Showboat, Blues In The Night, The Full Monty, Buddy Holly, and also as the voice of the plant in Little Shop Of Horrors. Since making his home in Denver, Robert has been named Best Male Vocalist in the Denver Posts Readers Poll, Best Jazz Vocalist by the Colorado Black Artists Association, and was honored as Colorado’s Best Male Singer by the News and Radio Media and Best Male Vocalist by the Colorado Songwriters Association...

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Robert Johnson’s voice can be heard everywhere. As a vocalist he’s shared the stage with Bob Hope, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Mangione, Stan Getz, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer and countless more. He’s appeared in national and regional productions of Porgy and Bess, Ain’t Misbehavin, A Brief History Of White Music, Showboat, Blues In The Night, The Full Monty, Buddy Holly, and also as the voice of the plant in Little Shop Of Horrors. Since making his home in Denver, Robert has been named Best Male Vocalist in the Denver Posts Readers Poll, Best Jazz Vocalist by the Colorado Black Artists Association, and was honored as Colorado’s Best Male Singer by the News and Radio Media and Best Male Vocalist by the Colorado Songwriters Association. This year may be his most ambitious musical journey yet with the release of his two projects, A Long Road Traveled and Black Snake Moan, along with the "I'm Not Dead Yet Tour." All of these projects will be full of new music written by Robert!—Mel Tormé (born September 13, 1925, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died June 5, 1999, Los Angeles, California) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, drummer, actor, and author. He was one of the 20th century’s most versatile, respected, and influential jazz vocalists.Known—to his chagrin—as the “Velvet Fog” for his smooth vocal quality, he mastered a variety of styles from mellow love songs to scat, and he wrote more than 300 songs. His most familiar, “The Christmas Song”—cowritten with Robert Wells and better known by its opening line, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”—was made famous by Nat King Cole in 1946 and subsequently recorded in more than 1,700 versions.—You can bet there’ll be a bit of scat singing:

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