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Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern (2015)

Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap - The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern (2015)
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Jazz, Vocal Jazz | RPM Records / Columbia / Sony Music #88875145742

The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern functions as something of an answer to its predecessor, Cheek to Cheek. That 2014 duet album with Lady Gaga was suitably brassy and snazzy, relying on well-loved standards and pizzazz – the kind of thing designed to stoke nostalgia vibes – but The Silver Lining is a purer jazz record, an intimate songbook collaboration with pianist Bill Charlap; the difference can be heard simply in comparing the versions of "I Won't Dance" that pop up on the two albums – the Gaga swings boldly, the Charlap rendition carries a wry resignation. Songbooks have been a standard item for Bennett throughout the years but if The Silver Lining recalls any specific album in the vocalist's discography, it's The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, a record released in 1975 when Bennett dropped off the major-label radar and his name was perhaps as well-known to record buyers as that of Evans.

Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 22, 2024
Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}

Tony Bennett - Duets II (2011) {Japanese Edition}
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Vocal Pop / Vocal Jazz / American Popular Song / Standards
Sony Music Japan International Inc. #SICP 3258

Tony Bennett’s first album of celebrity duets (2006's Duets: An American Classic) featured an impressive cast of superstars answering the call from the dean of pop vocalists, but the arrangements were overly safe – virtually all of them ballads with soft strings or brassy finger-snappers. Duets II follows the first by five years and features, surprisingly, a cast just as star-laden, but also arrangements that are much more dynamic, and suitable for each song and its participants. (Marion Evans, a veteran whose career goes back nearly as far as Bennett's, handles the charts for a few of the best here.)
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Love Is Here To Stay (2018) {Deluxe Edition, Japan}

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Love Is Here To Stay (2018) {Deluxe Edition, Japan}
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Vocal Jazz, Standards | Verve Records / Universal Music #UCCV-9677

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall's partnership didn't begin with the 2018 duets album Love Is Here to Stay. Krall popped up on two prior duets albums from Bennett and the pair toured at the dawn of the 2000s, but Love Is Here to Stay marks their first full record together, and it's an elegant affair. Conceived as a tribute to George Gershwin, the album is filled with familiar tunes, but hints of imagination lurk around the edges, such as the revival of "Fascinating Rhythm," the tune Bennett recorded for his first single in 1949. Nearly 70 years separate that version of "Fascinating Rhythm" from this 2018 rendition, and while Bennett certainly sounds older – his voice is slightly raspy, he can't hit the high notes the way he used to, nor does he sing with quite as much force – he still sounds spry and commanding, happily dancing through these cozy melodies, singing with as much rhythm as lyricism.
Tony Bennett - Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001) Repost / New Rip

Tony Bennett - Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001)
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Vocal Jazz, Blues | RPM Records / Columbia #CK 85833

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 partners include ten singers who range from his recent touring partners Diana Krall and k.d. lang to fellow veterans Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Kay Starr, and younger, but still mature pop stars Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and Billy Joel. All sound happy to be sharing a mic with Bennett. Not surprisingly, the singer's conception of the blues does not extend to the Mississippi Delta or the South Side of Chicago; rather, he is interested in the blues as filtered through the sound of the Swing Era, particularly from around Kansas City, and as interpreted by Tin Pan Alley and show tunes…

Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank (1992)  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 8, 2017
Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank (1992)

Tony Bennett - Perfectly Frank (1992)
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Vocal Jazz | Columbia #CK 52965

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. This massive, 24-track compilation runs through the list of standards that made Sinatra legendary. "Night and Day," "East of the Sun (West of the Moon)," and "The Lady Is a Tramp" are just a few of the tracks that Bennett has managed to bring to life just as beautifully as Sinatra did so many years ago. Backed by his standard group, the Ralph Sharon Trio, he manages to make this collection more and more his own. Instead of simply covering the songs, or trying to emulate Sinatra, Bennett adds his personal touch to each song. This is a tribute to the music, as well as to Sinatra.

Tony Bennet - Duets: An American Classic (2006)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 11, 2019
Tony Bennet - Duets: An American Classic (2006)

Tony Bennet - Duets: An American Classic (2006)
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Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Standards | RPM Records / Columbia #82876 80979 2

Tony Bennett has so many adoring celebrity fans it should come as no surprise that when a major duets album is planned, he's able to draw a roster of the biggest recording stars from the rock and vocal worlds, plus a pair of country music wildcards. (This despite the fact that he recorded an album with several duets in 2001, and a full-album collaboration one year later with k.d. lang.) One surprise is how well producer Phil Ramone paired Bennett with both duet partners and fitting standards – among them Barbra Streisand on the optimist's anthem "Smile," Dixie Chicks for the flapper standard "Lullaby of Broadway," Bono on the wickedly spiteful "I Wanna Be Around," Tim McGraw on "Cold, Cold Heart" (the Hank Williams song that was Bennett's biggest country crossover hit), Stevie Wonder on his own "For Once in My Life," Juanes for "The Shadow of Your Smile" (which was a hit first for the Brazilian Astrud Gilberto), and Sting on the torch song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

VA - Those Were The Days: The Good Life (2015)  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 15, 2019
VA - Those Were The Days: The Good Life (2015)

VA - Those Were The Days: The Good Life (2015)
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Pop | Sony Music #88875059812

Those Were the Days is a wonderful collection of pop music 40's - 70's of the last century. Includes: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Nina Simone, Perry Como…
Frank Sinatra - Duets: Twentieth Anniversary (2013) {Deluxe Edition}

Frank Sinatra - Duets: Twentieth Anniversary (2013) {Deluxe Edition}
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Vocal Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening | Capitol Records / Universal Music #B0019451-02

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's groundbreaking and highly successful album, Duets, Capitol/UMe will release a newly-remastered Sinatra Duets - Twentieth Anniversary 2CD Deluxe Edition bringing together the original Duets, and the follow-up Duets II, together in one deluxe package. Included on the 2CD deluxe edition are two never-before-released recordings: 'One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)' featuring Tom Scott and 'Embraceable You' with Tanya Tucker plus the rare bonus tracks 'Fly Me to the Moon' with George Strait and two versions of 'My Way' one recorded with Luciano Pavarotti and the other with Willie Nelson.

Andrea Bocelli - Concerto: One Night In Central Park (2011)  Music

Posted by popsakov at July 17, 2021
Andrea Bocelli - Concerto: One Night In Central Park (2011)

Andrea Bocelli - Concerto: One Night In Central Park (2011)
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Decca Records / Sugar Music / Almud Edizioni Musicali S.r.l. #B0015977-02
Classical / Classical Crossover / Opera / Pop / Vocal

Concerto: One Night in Central Park is a live album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The album was recorded September 15, 2011, during a concert at the Central Park's Great Lawn, in New York. Guest performers included Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, Bryn Terfel, Pretty Yende, and music producer David Foster. The album, immediately upon release, entered the Billboard Top 10 and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

VA - OMG! The Ultimate Christmas Album (2014)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 6, 2020
VA - OMG! The Ultimate Christmas Album (2014)

VA - OMG! The Ultimate Christmas Album (2014)
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Pop, Vocal, Christmas, Classical | Sony Music #88875031302

Oh My Gosh! The Ultimate Christmas Collection includes the hits by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers, Boney M, Christina Aguilera, John Legend, Backstreet Boys, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Chris Botti, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and many more!