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Remembering Mel Tormé on his birthday. He said, "One of the joys of a jazz singer is to try to keep a dimension of constant improvisation in relation to what he sings. But--and it's a big but--only if you never lose sight of the original musical value which the composer put in it. He was a child prodigy. A supreme vocal technician whose style encompassed everything from intimate pop crooning to jet-propelled scat improvisations, Tormé was rivaled in virtuosity only by Ella Fitzgerald, who moved