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Tony Bennett: Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

FLASH: Tony Bennett scats! True, it's scarcely four bars, but that's the least of what makes this track remarkable. H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Tony Bennett and Bill Evans: Make Someone Happy (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

An often-overlooked part of Bill Evans’ genius was his ability to listen closely to what his fellow musicians are doi...

Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: Young and Foolish (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

With the passing of time, this recording has taken on the luster of a classic. But when the collaboration between Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Tony Bennett: Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 19, 08

When I was a young man I drove across the country and ended up in San Francisco. Just as I parked and started walking...

Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...

Tony Bennett: Lover (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Finally! After three decades of jazz "Lovers" streaking to shatter the 3-minute mile, Tony Bennett shows what an ench...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Tony Bennett: Steppin' Out With My Baby (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

Among the stars slouching through the first four seasons of MTV Unplugged—the popular cable series where normally amp...

Tony Bennett and Diana Krall on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 21, 09

Thomas Cunniffe, an editor and regular contributor at jazz.com, reports on two DVDs focusing on jazz vocalists: Tony ...

Bennett, Tony (Anthony Dominic Benedetto) posted in Encyclopedia November 20, 08

The cover to Tony Bennett's 2006 album, Duets – An American Classic, makes a remarkable visual statement about the si...

Lujan, Tony posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lujan, Tony, trumpet and flugelhorn; b. Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1956 His spirit is rooted in the red rock beauty ...

The State of Jazz Vocals Today (Part 2) posted in Features and Interviews February 18, 08

The type of emotional immediacy we encounter with Karrin Allyson or Diana Krall or Norah Jones is much harder to fi...

Late Period Bill Evans: Genius or Decline? posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 17, 09

Here is a jazz paradox. Most great jazz artists make their best music before the age of 40. Yet—and here is the...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Harris, Allan (John Allan Harris, III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Harris, Allan [John Allan Harris, III], singer, guitarist; b.  Brooklyn, NY, 4 April 1956. His mother is Yohanna...

Evans, Bill (William John) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

Pianist, composer and arranger Bill Evans’s impressionistic harmonies built the sound of trumpeter Miles Davis’s Kind...

Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 05, 09

Jazz.com published its 6,000th article yesterday—a total which includes more than 4,000 track reviews contributed by...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: July 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages August 02, 09

Student fined $675K for 30 downloads That's $22,500 per song. Favorite band movies Sa...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: May 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages June 01, 09

Rumors of jazz movies Will they ever come to the screen? How jazz works Jay Thomas gives...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: August 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages September 01, 09

Twenty-somethings on a jazz mission They want to build the jazz audience with money borrowed from mom. Re...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: September 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages October 05, 09

Tony Bennett's $10 million deal Who says there's no money in singing standards? "Why I love j...

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