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Classic Christmas
by Michael Ricci
Time-honored classics for the most wonderful time of the year. Lights and snow not included. TrackNameTimeArtistAlbum1Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town2:38Tony BennettSnowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album2A Holly Jolly Christmas2:14Burl IvesClassic Christmas3Looks Like A Cold, Cold Winter3:50Bing Crosby with Sonny Burke's OrchestraClassic Christmas4Winter Wonderland2:16Ella FitzgeraldElla Wishes You A Swinging Christmas5Baby, It's Cold Outside2:20Dinah Shore & Buddy ClarkClassic Christmas6Sleigh Ride3:20Tex Beneke & Yhe Glenn Miller OrchestraClassic Christmas7Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season2:39Andy WilliamsThe Andy Williams Christmas Album8White Christmas2:30Dean MartinMy Kind of ...
Continue ReadingLive From Birmingham: The Pedigree Jazz Band, Tony Bennett, The Fat Chops Big Band
by Martin Longley
The Pedigree Jazz Band Solihull British Legion September 7, 2014 It's a curious sensation when tributes are paid to revivals of revivals. Down the decades since the original jazz repertoire was established in the 1920s, '30s, and even earlier, there have been a multitude of responses, counter-responses, exhumations and celebrations. The Pedigree Jazz Band is currently presenting A Tribute to Trad Jazz, a show that's culled from their two albums of the same ...
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: On Tour at 85
by Nick Catalano
Last weekend my myriad travels took me to Pittsburgh, where I was able to visit Heinz Hall to watch Tony Bennett defy nature and astound a packed house with his latest concert wizardry. Heinz Hall sits in the middle of a revitalized downtown Pittsburgh and has been wondrously restored, with gold-leafed columns, plush red carpeting and chic dining facilities. Years ago, Lena Horne insisted that Bennett include the venerable venue on his tours to experience its amazing acoustics. This time ...
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: Philadelphia, PA, November 4, 2011
by Lewis J Whittington
Tony BennettAcademy of MusicPhiladelphia, PANovember 4, 2011 Tony Bennett plugged his upcoming appearance on Lady Gaga's Thanksgiving Special in the middle of singing “The Good Life," to the packed house at the Academy of Music, who may or may not know that she's the biggest act around; but, to this crowd, at age 85, Bennett was the hottest ticket in town. The love for him just gushed through the concert hall and Bennett gave ...
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: A Swingin' Christmas: Tony Bennett Featuring the Count Basie Big Band
by Chris M. Slawecki
You'd think that a holiday season dedicated to love and laughter and home and family would be a frequent subject for the comfortable, familiar and warm voice of a singer like Tony Bennett. But A Swingin' Christmas: Tony Bennett Featuring the Count Basie Big Band is only the venerable vocalist's second holiday-themed album, and his first since Snowfall (Columbia), which was originally released forty years ago in 1968 and then remastered and reissued with a bonus track in '94.
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: Snowfall The Tony Bennett Christmas Album
by Andrew Velez
There are those very rare singers who become, what Duke Ellington said of Ella Fitzgerald, “beyond category. Labels like pop or jazz singer become irrelevant, and such is the case with Tony Bennett. Even when he sings a blues tune there's a buoyant optimism which suffuses all of his work. With these holiday classics it's as irrepressible as it is irresistible. For this refurbished edition of a 1968 set, Robert Farnon's arrangements and conducting create the kind ...
Continue ReadingTony Bennett: Perfectly Frank & Greatest Hits of the '60s
by Ernest Barteldes
As Tony Bennett celebrates his 80th birthday, his ability to carry a song and work a crowd has not diminished since he began his recording career over 50 years ago.In addition to his new disc, Duets: An American Classic (Columbia), which maintains a solid position on the charts, his label is having much of his music reissued. Perfectly Frank, originally released in 1992 as a living tribute to the fellow vocalist, mostly avoids the clichés of Sinatra's repertoire ...
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