Tony Bennett The Complete Collection

While the original albums have been issued on CD before, complete sessions have never been available until now. Along with the original LPs are unissued alternate takes, 45s, and even an unreleased tune finished for a particular session but never used. In addition, the album with the McPartlands is here on compact disc for the first time. It should also be noted that this box finally completes the two different Tony Bennett and Bill Evans Together Again CD issues that were released on Rhino and Concord with different material.

For those new to the music of Tony Bennett, Improv was a label started by Tony Bennett and businessman Bill Hassett. Bennett was fed up with the suits at Columbia Records, who were trying to make him sing rock & roll. When his contract expired at the beginning of the 1970s, he and Hassett formed a label to help him realize his aesthetic ambitions, and Improv was born. Bennett recorded five albums for the label between 1975 and 1977 before it went bankrupt.

Part 1 of Tony's superb Rodgers and Hart recordings. If you don't like this, you can't be my friend.

Tony Bennett & Bill Evans - The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings (2009) {2CD Set, Fantasy FAN-31281 rec 1975-1976}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 656 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 363 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 72 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1975-76, 2009 Concord / Fantasy | FAN-31281 | 24-bit remastering
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano / Vocal

A sublime 2-CD collection that spotlights the iconic song stylist dueting with the legendary jazz pianist from their two albums recorded in 1975 & 1976. Disc 1 combines the originally issued recordings, The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album and Together Again with two bonus tracks. Disc 2 features alternate takes from both sessions.

Tony Bennett's career has enjoyed three distinct phases, each of them very successful. In the early '50s, he scored a series of major hits that made him one of the most popular recording artists of the time. In the early '60s, he mounted a comeback as more of an adult-album seller. And from the mid-'80s on, he achieved renewed popularity with generations of listeners who hadn't been born when he first appeared. This, however, defines Bennett more in terms of marketing than music.