Tony Bennett / The Essential Tony Bennett – CD

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Author: Bennett, Tony

Format: Limited Edition

Release Date: 23-07-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Tony Bennett has a typical lack of effusiveness about the kudos of his seven-decade career, but he does reportedly display an inscribed picture from a longtime colleague and fellow saloon singer in his Manhattan apartment. It reads: « To the best goddamned pop singer I’ve ever heard. » It’s signed « Frank Sinatra. » But don’t take the Chairman’s word for it. Just listen as these two discs bound from one masterly performance to the next, documenting a career whose ups and downs–Bennett actually went long years without a record contract–belie a robust evolution of vocal strength and subtlety of phrasing. The arc of Bennett’s art in the decade from « Cold Cold Heart » and « Rags to Riches » to « The Best Is Yet To Come » and his signature « I Left My Heart in San Francisco » is remarkable enough, but it just keeps getting better. When the singer’s management shrewdly orchestrated his MTV-powered « comeback » in the late 1980s and ’90s, Bennett delivered considerably more than mere hype. Indeed, the highlights of those efforts (a warm, semi-autobiographical collection of ballads; tributes to Sinatra, Astaire, Ellington, and the blues; the obligatory MTV Unplugged set) included here barely skim the surface and arguably warrant a double-disc collection all their own. Still, the 39 tracks here represent the best kind of anthology: one that leaves you craving more. –Jerry McCulley Product description Bennett,Tony ~ Essential Tony Bennett

UPC: 069699866342

EAN: 0696998663428

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New