Count Basie, Tony Bennett - Basie Swings Bennett Sings
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Artist: Count Basie, Tony BennettEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 1990-05-10
CD Release Date: 1990-05-10
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Life Is A Song
- With Plenty Of Money And You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Are You Havin' Any Fun
- Anything Goes
- Strike Up The Band
- Chicago
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Growing Pains
- I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
- After Supper
Music reviews of Basie Swings Bennett Sings
Music Review: I think this is one of the very best Tony Bennett albums
Rating: 5 Stars
There are three really great Tony Bennett albums, and this 1958 album originally released on Roulette Records is one of them (for the record, the other two are "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and "Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album"). Ironically, Count Basie did not have all that much of a hand in the album. Yes, it is his orchestra, which certainly sounds great. But Basie only plays the piano on two of the tracks, "Life Is a Song" and "Jeepers Creepers." Bennett's own pianist Ralph Sharon not only plays the piano on the other tracks but did all the charts for these songs as well. Still, these songs are very much done in the Count Basie style, as evidenced on "Strike Up the Band," "Chicago," and "With Plenty of Money and You." You would not think of Bennett as being a jazz singer per se, but he is right at home in front of the Count Basie Orchestra proving he would have been a great band singer if he had been born a decade or two earlier. My favorite track is "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," a song from the musical "My Fair Lady," which you would have thought was written by Bennett as it is one of those perfect marriages of singer and song. He never sang any song better than this one. This 1990 CD reissue also includes a Neal Hefti ballad, "After Supper," but even with this bonus track the main complaint about this album is that it is only a half-hour long (which is certainly representative of the times).
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