Tony Bennett - The Essential Tony Bennett (Columbia/Legacy, 2002)
Tony Bennett, nome d'arte di Anthony Dominick Benedetto, che poteva vantare il titolo onorifico di cantante preferito da Frank Sinatra, ha sempre avuto una vera passione per il jazz, ed è stato forse il primo cantante bianco di estrazione pop (che è il termine americano per musica leggera) a incidere con l'orchestra di Count Basie nel 1958. Nel corso della sua carriera Bennet ha cantato tra l'altro anche con Duke Ellington, Woody Herman e Bill Evans. Questa compilation è un ottima retrospettiva esauriente di una lunga carriera piena di successi."Keep the Faith, Baby" (with k. d. lang)
Recorded between 1951 & 2001
Personnel includes: Tony Bennett, k.d. Lang (vocals); Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Frank DeVol, Ralph Burns, Marty Manning, Don Costa, Johnny Mandel, Torrie Zito, Robert Farnon (arranger, conduct); Al Cohn (tenor saxophone); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Jimmy Rowles, Tommy Flanagan (piano); Count Basie & His Orchestra; Ralph Sharon Trio
Disc One
"Because of You" (Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson) - 2:56
"Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams) 2:37
"Blue Velvet" with Percy Faith and His Orchestra (Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris) - 2:59
"Rags to Riches" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:48
"Stranger in Paradise" with the Ray Charles Singers (Robert Wright, George Forrest, Alexander Borodin) - 3:04
"Sing, You Sinners" (Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling) - 2:15
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Dubin, Warren) - 2:30
"Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) - 2:32
"It Amazes Me" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:22
"Love Look Away" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 2:45
"Firefly" with Count Basie and His Orchestra (Coleman, Leigh) - 1:37
"Put on a Happy Face" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 2:37
"The Best is Yet to Come" (Coleman, Leigh) - 2:33
"Tender is the Night" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:40
"Once Upon a Time" (Adams, Strouse) - 2:57
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 2:50
"I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstadt) - 2:10
"The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Ray Reardon) - 2:14
"This is All I Ask" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:14
"When Joanna Loved Me" (Robert Wells, Jack Segal) - 3:05
"The Rules of the Road" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) 2:20 (previously unreleased, recorded 1964)
[edit]
Disc Two
"Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 2:54
"If I Ruled the World" (Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) - 3:00
"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) - 4:11
"The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Ben Webster) - 3:37
"Smile" (John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) - 3:32
"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 4:30
"For Once in My Life" (Ronald Dean Miller, Orlando Murden) - 3:22
"Yesterday I Heard the Rain (Esta Tarde vi Llover)" (Armando Manzanero, Gene Lees) - 3:40
"My Favorite Things" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) - 3:17
"I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You" (Rodgers, Martin Charmin) 3:27
"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 4:20
"When Do the Bells Ring for Me?" (Charles DeForest) - 2:57
"Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 3:34
"Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 2:26
"Steppin' Out With My Baby" (Irving Berlin) - 2:52
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 3:05 [live]
"Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Ellington, Mills) - 4:33
"Keep the Faith, Baby" (with k. d. lang) (Luchi de Jesus, Lila Lerner, Mayme Watts) - 3:50
Spoiler :
0 commenti:
Posta un commento