Tony Bennett

   
Artist: Tony Bennett

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Vocal
   Other
   Pop
   Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Duets: An American Classic

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Ultimate Tony Bennett

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 20


   
 The Essential Tony Bennett: A Retrospective

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20


   
 Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 11


   
 2 Classic Albums

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 24


   
 Perfectly Frank

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 24


   
 Forty Years : The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (CD 4)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 22


   
 Forty Years : The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (CD 3)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 20


   
 Forty Years : The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (CD 2)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 22


   
 Forty Years : The Artistry Of Tony Bennett (CD 1)

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 23


   
 The Art Of Romance

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Here's to the Ladies

   Year:    
Tracks: 36


   
 All The Best

   Year:    
Tracks: 14


   
 A Wonderful World

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 A Tribute To Billie Holiday

   Year:    
Tracks: 19

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Tony Bennett's vocation has enjoyed trey discrete phases, each of them very successful. In the early '50s, he scored a serial of major hits that made him one of the most popular recording artists of the clip. In the early '60s, he mounted a replication as more of an adult-album seller. And from the mid-'80s on, he achieved renewed popularity with generations of listeners world Health Organization hadn't been innate when he number 1 appeared. This, all the same, defines Bennett more in damage of marketing than music. He himself in all likelihood would order that, in each phase of his life history, he has remained largely constant to his goals of vocalizing the c. H. Best available songs the topper way he knows how. Popular taste whitethorn have caused his tier of recognition to increase or decrement, only he continued to tattle popular standards in a warm, gruff tenor, varying his timing and choice of words with a idle words fan's horse sense of spontaneity to land stunned the melodies and lyrics of the songs effectively. By the start of the twenty-first century, Bennett seemed like the final of a breed, just he remained as pop as ever. Bennett grew up in the Astoria section of the borough of Queens in New York City under the list Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father, a grocer, died when he was about ten-spot after a tarriance unwellness that had forced his female parent to turn a dressmaker to sustenance the kinsfolk of five-spot. By then, he was already starting to attract notice as a singer, playing beside Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at the scuttle of the Triborough Bridge in 1936. By his teens, Bennett had coiffure his sights on becoming a professional isaac Merrit Singer. After briefly attendance the High School of Industrial Arts (instantly known as the High School of Art and Design), where he gained education as a painter, he dropped out of school at 16 to earn money to help support his house, meanwhile also performing at amateur shows. Upon his 18th natal day in 1944, he was drafted into the Army, and he saw scrap in Europe during World War II. Mustered out in 1946, he went back to nerve-wracking to make it in music, and he accompanied the American Theater Wing on the GI Bill. By the end of the 1940s, he had acquired a manager and was working regularly around New York. He got a ruin when Bob Hope saw him performing with Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village and put him into his point show, besides suggesting a diagnose change to Tony Bennett. In 1950, Columbia Records A&R director Mitch Miller heard his demo recording of "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and sign him to the label. Bennett's first reach, "Because of You," topped the charts in September 1951, succeeded at identification number one by his cover of Hank Williams' "Cold-blooded, Cold Heart." Following some other five chart entries over the future iI years, he returned to bit one in November 1953 with "Rags to Riches." Its followup, "Stranger in Paradise" from the Broadway melodious Kismet, was some other chart-topper, and in 1954 Bennett too reached the Top Ten with Williams' "There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight" and "Ceylon cinnamon Sinner." The rise of john Rock & wrap in the mid-'50s made it more difficult for Bennett to scotch big hits, only he continued to place singles in the charts regularly through 1960, and even returned to the Top Ten with "In the Middle of an Island" in 1957. Meanwhile, he was developing a nightclub act that leaned more heavily on standards and was exploring album projects that allowed him to indulge his pastime in jazz -- notably 1957's The Beat of My Heart, on which he was attended principally by jazz percussionists, and 1959's In Person! With Count Basie and His Orchestra. By the early '60s, although he had weakened as a singles artist, he had built a successful life history devising personal appearances and transcription albums of well-known songs in the personal manner of Frank Sinatra. In 1962, Bennett introduced "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," a lay written by two nameless songwriters, George Cory and Douglass Cross, wHO had pitched it to his piano player, Ralph Sharon. Released as a single, the song dynasty took time to catch on, and although it peaked simply in the Top 20, it remained on one or the other of the national charts for about nine-spot months. It became Bennett's signature song dynasty and pushed his life history to a higher level. The I Left My Heart in San Francisco album reached the Top Five and went gold, and the single won Bennett Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male. Bennett's adjacent studio album, 1963's I Wanna Be Around..., too made the Top Five, and its title track was some other Top 20 strike, as was his future single, "The Good Life," too featured on the album. For the adjacent three years, his albums systematically placed in the Top 100, along with a series of charting singles that included the Top 40 hits "WHO Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (from the Broadway melodious The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd) and "If I Ruled the World" (from the Broadway melodious Pickwick). By the late '60s, Bennett's track record gross sales had cooled off as the major record labels turned their tending to the lucrative rock market. Just as Mitch Miller had bucked up Bennett to record fallal songs over his objections in the 1950s, Clive Davis, head of Columbia parent CBS Records, bucked up him to track record modern-day pop/rock material. He acquiesced on albums such as Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, merely his sales did non meliorate. In 1972, he leftfield Columbia for the Verve division of MGM Records, merely by the mid-'70s he was without a label affiliation, and he decided to establish his have record party, Improv, to record the way he precious to. He made several albums for Improv, including one with nothingness piano player Bill Evans (following a disc they made for Fantasy Records), merely the label eventually foundered. (Lexington and Concord Records released the box set The Complete Improv Recordings in 2004.)By the late '70s, however, Bennett did not pauperization strike records to hold up his career, and he worked regularly in concert halls about the human race. By the mid-'80s, there was a growing appreciation of traditional pop medicine, as performers such as Linda Ronstadt recorded albums of standards. In 1986, Bennett re-signed to Columbia and released The Art of Excellence, his beginning album to hit the pop charts in 14 years. Now managed by his son Danny, Bennett astutely set up ways to attract the attention of the MTV genesis without ever-changing his basic style of tattle songs from the Great American Songbook spell wearing a tux. By the former '90s, he was as pop as he had of all time been. The albums Utterly Frank (1992, a protection to Frank Sinatra) and Steppin' Out (1993, a protection to Fred Astaire) went gold and won Bennett back-to-back Grammys for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. But his counter was sealed by 1994's MTV Unplugged, featuring guest stars Elvis Costello and k.d. lang, which went pt and won the Grammy for Album of the Year as considerably as some other awarding for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.


Bennett became a Grammy recurrent, as well taking rest home Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance awards for Here's to the Ladies (1995) and On Holiday: A Tribute to Billie Holiday (1997). Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999) was another Grammy success in the retitled Best Traditional Pop Album category, as was Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues, an album of duets released in 2001. One year later on, Bennett paired off with a single span partner, recording A Wonderful World with k.d. lang. The Art of Romance followed in 2004. Both albums south Korean won the Best Traditional Pop Album Grammy for their several geezerhood. In August 2006, Bennett reached his eightieth natal day, and his record label marked the occasion with a series of reissues and compilations. The next month brought Duets: An American Classic, another collecting of pairings with other singers on re-recordings of some of Bennett's best-known songs that reached bit three in the Billboard graph, the highest placing for an album in Bennett's calling. It besides won him some other Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Album.





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