Down For Double: Jon Hendricks and Mel Torme

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Monday morning everything seems out of synch, but when it’s the likes of Jon Hendricks and Mel Torme, who cares?

Thanks to YouTuber icedrum2

Gotta Ha-Ha-Ha Every Day

King Pleasure and Jon Hendricks face Mondays head-on.

King Pleasure was one of the forefathers of vocalese in the early 1950s, and this song was originally an instrumental by Stan Getz. For a while, in my twenties, I played this over and over every morning. Especially Mondays.