2002Tony BennettVocal Jazz
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)
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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