Tony Bennett's latter-day albums tend to have themes, and this one has two, as indicated by its double-barreled title: It is both a duets album and a blues album. The duet...
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Along with his producer, Ernest Altschuler, and his arranger/pianist Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett had been searching for a repertoire and a musical approach beyond his...
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Of course, Tony Bennett never was "plugged," so the concept here is redundant, but what the hell. It's been a while since a Tony Bennett live album, and he's always terrific...
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MTV Unplugged 6/21/1994, Yahoo! Music, Bill Holdship
Duets with K.D. Lang and Elvis Costello only demonstrate that Bennett's voice is like fine wine--improving with...
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Columbia Records took Tony Bennett's recording of the Beatles' "Something," which had appeared on the previous year's Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today! and had been a...
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Tony Bennett returned to the Top 40 in late 1964 with his version of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley anthem "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)," from Newley's...
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As the studio album followup to Tony Bennett's breakthrough record, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, I Wanna Be Around had a lot to live up to, but since San Francisco was...
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For years, it was rumored that Frank Sinatra was going to record an album called Here's to the Ladies, but the Chairman of the Board never got around to actually making the...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of Tony Bennett's best albums -- I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Art of Excellence and Astoria: A Portrait of the Artist -- as a...
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Employing Sinatra arranger Don Costa, Tony Bennett put together a concept album similar to Sinatra's Come Fly With Me. Travel was the loose theme that united Antonio Carlos...
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On only his third full-length, 12-inch LP, Tony Bennett comes up with a concept album, singing against novel percussion arrangements, backed by drummers like Art Blakey, Jo...
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Tony Bennett's edition in the Columbia series This Is Jazz indeed focuses on his most jazz-oriented sides, all recorded during the late '50s and early '60s. Several feature...
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This is a 12-track hits compilation focusing primarily on Tony Bennett's 1960s work and allowing him to re-record several numbers using only pianist John Bunch for...
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This two-CD set is recorded concert performance at its best. Originally recorded in 1962, Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall is a testament to Bennett's live vocal ability....
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16 Most Requested Songs is a nice, budget-priced collection of Tony Bennett's hits that provides an adequate introduction, but it is far from a definitive collection. ~...
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With British arranger/conductor Robert Farnon handling the trans-Atlantic sessions, Tony Bennett's 1968 Christmas album turned into a swinging affair, from the version of...
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Life is a Song compiles highlights from the 1959 album Basie Swings, Bennett Sings and the 1961 record Bennett and Basie Strike Up The Band, which were both released on...
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CBS Special Products first assembled this ten-track budget compilation of Tony Bennett's Columbia Records recordings spanning 1951-1971 in 1982, and it has been reissued...
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The 20 tracks on this anthology cover Bennett's entire career at Columbia, from his 1951 number one single "Because of You" to "Mood Indigo" from 1999's Hot and Cool:...
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This is a 16-track compilation of familiar Tony Bennett performances from his initial sojourn at Columbia Records, 1950-1972, including such hits as "I Left My Heart In San...
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Tony Bennett's departure from Columbia Records after 22 years in 1972 inspired the label to put together a one-volume hits compilation (originally released on two LPs) of 20...
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Like The Art Of Excellence, the album that marked Tony Bennett's return to recording in 1986, Astoria: A Portrait Of The Artist was a non-thematic collection of new and old...
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With his warmth and upbeat attitude, Tony Bennett makes an excellent interpreter of Irving Berlin, whose songs share exactly those qualities. This was Bennett's second newly...
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This is not the best of Tony Bennett by any stretch of the imagination, but it is an interesting record from the collector's point of view, because it contains a set of...
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Tony Bennett recorded two albums with Count Basie and His Orchestra under a contractual agreement giving one of the records to Bennett's label, Columbia, and the other to...
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A four-CD boxed set. If you were to buy this, nothing pre-1991 really has to be bought. As essential in its own way as the Sinatra boxed set on...
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When the first version of this impressive box set was originally released in 1991 (as Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett), it put the capstone upon Tony Bennett's...
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Along with his producer, Ernest Altschuler, and his arranger/pianist, Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett had been searching for a repertoire and a musical approach beyond his...
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Most of his early jazz LPs are only available now on other labels (for example, Bill Evans and Bennett recorded two albums together, which are individually now available on...
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What a wonderful idea. This is a compilation album ranging across Tony Bennett's early career, from 1954 to 1967, highlighting some of his more adventurous sessions with...
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Perfectly Frank is just that -- a group of covers that came to define Frank Sinatra as a vocal legend. Here, Tony Bennett pays homage to "the Voice" in a way only he can....
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Bennett's tribute to songs that Fred Astaire made famous (including standards by Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern) is as strong a record as anything he...
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This album marked Tony Bennett's return to recording after half a dozen years, his return to Columbia Records after 14 years, and the beginning of the third stage in his...
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By the mid-1960s, retreating from the rock & roll onslaught, that old-time staple of the pre-rock days, the big romantic ballad, had been relegated to Hollywood, where it...
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On the last of his independent albums before he gave up recording for seven years, Tony Bennett puts together a 12-song medley of Cole Porter songs (it's okay, but why not...
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As discount compilations go, this one is just fine. There are 10 songs, and the album runs 27 minutes, so don't expect to pay anything like full price. But among the 10...
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The Essence of Tony Bennett is a ten-track, budget-priced collection that culls highlights -- not necessarily hits -- from Bennett's long career at Columbia Records. There...
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Tony Bennett's two duet sessions with brilliant jazz pianist Bill Evans have long ago earned classic status, but this beautiful piano-and-voice-only set is an equally...
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Bennett is a late entrant in the '99 Ellington Centennial Tribute Sweeps, but even those who may be feeling a bit played out by the flood of recorded homages to the Duke...
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Tony Bennett's practically inevitable commemoration of the Duke Ellington centenary is an appropriately blue-chip affair, with a big band and orchestra augmenting the Ralph...
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Like most entries in Sony/Legacy's Essential series, 2002's The Essential Tony Bennett is an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia....
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Released in 1955, when Tony Bennett was only 30 years old, Cloud 7 was the record he fought and earned the right to make. He'd already had a string of hits for the label and...
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Few vocalists have earned what Tony Bennett enjoys: the absolute authority of recording exactly what he wants, exactly the way he wants. And when recording an album of love...
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