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Make Him an Offer He Can't Refuse: Tony Bennett and Mafia Films

by Peter Wogan
February 22, 2026

Tony Bennett's song “I Wanna Be Around" (1962) pulls the listener in interesting directions. It contains Ralph Sharon's playful piano notes, the cheerful C major key, and Tony Bennett's silky smooth voice--yet the lyrics are all about vengeance and deriving joy from another person's suffering. As Bennett sings, “And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet/As I sit there applauding from a front-row seat/When somebody breaks your heart like you, like you broke mine." Studies show that ...

Jazz Fiction

Interruptions On A Christmas Eve

by Arthur R George
December 24, 2025

The small restaurant and occasional music bistro was closed for Christmas Eve. Its owner Ernie DiVitale had darkened the room. There was light enough, from the Christmas tree in the corner and spilling in from a lamp over the prep area in the kitchen, to relax with his wife Veronica at a back table over cappuccini and frutti di bosco tortas, ricotta cheese cake with fresh fruit toppings, a special treat in winter. For Ernie and Veronica it ...

Interview

A Fireside Chat With Tony Bennett

by AAJ Staff
July 23, 2023

This interview was first published on All About Jazz in September 2001. Tony Bennett hails from a period in Americana where style loomed larger than sustenance and men were less than men without a martini or scotch in one hand and a cigar or cigarette burning from the other. Those were the days. And although Tony was never a member of the “Rat Pack," he still had that swagger. At seventy-five, Tony's longevity is a tribute to his ...

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Film Review

Clint Eastwood Presents: Tony Bennett - The Music Never Ends

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 23, 2023

This article was first published on All About Jazz on April 11, 2008. Tony Bennett Clint Eastwood Presents: Tony Bennett--The Music Never Ends Warner Home Video 2007 No matter how much you know, or think you know, about the life and artistry of Tony Bennett, you will learn something new from Clint Eastwood's lovingly rendered, impeccably produced two-DVD documentary Tony Bennett--The Music Never Ends. Eastwood and director Bruce Ricker weave together performance ...

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Building a Jazz Library

The Best of Tony Bennett

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 23, 2023

"Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business, the best exponent of a song," Frank Sinatra once said. “He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more. There's a feeling in back of it." Tony Bennett began his career as a singing waiter in his Queens, NY neighborhood. He served in WWII as part of “the greatest generation" and returned home to his music. Two enduring career hallmarks--his inexhaustible ...

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Album Review

Tony Bennett / Bill Evans: The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings

Read "The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
July 23, 2023

In the mid-1970s, when singer Tony Bennett got together with pianist Bill Evans to record The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (Concord, 1975) and Together Again (Concord, 1976), Bennett was considered terminally uncool by most jazz fans under 30, and rock fans of any age. Despite a few earlier outings in jazz contexts, including an album recorded with Count Basie's orchestra, Basie Swings, Bennett Sings (Roulette, 1959) he was primarily regarded as an MOR singer, defined in the public consciousness by ...

Beauty, Love and Justice: Living A Coltranian Life

Tony Bennett: A Hero's Journey in Authenticity

by Christine Passarella
July 23, 2023

This article was first published on All About Jazz on April 19, 2021. The Bennett Effect Jazz singer Tony Bennett always looms large in my mind because of the elegant way he artistically embraces humanity. Awareness of Tony Bennett came my way when his music greeted me as a child, especially on Sunday during Italian American family dinners. With the delicious sauce covered ravioli and crisp Italian bread, we also had the vital ingredient of great music. The ...