Tony Bennett - The Art of Romance
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Artist: Tony BennettBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Close Enough for Love
- All in Fun
- Where Do You Start
- Little Did I Dream
- I Remember You - Tony Bennett
- Time to Smile
- All for You
- Best Man
- Don't Like Goodbyes
- Being Alive
- Gone With the Wind [CD-ROM Track] - Tony Bennett, , Tony Bennett
Music reviews of The Art of Romance
Music Review: "Where Do You Start?...How Do You Separate The Present Form The Past?"
Rating: 5 Stars
This recording won the Best Traditional Vocal Pop Album in the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. My congratulations to Tony Bennett, conductor/arranger Johnny Mandel, arranger/pianist Lee Musiker, arranger Jorge Calandrelli, producers Phil Ramone and Danny Bennett, and the rest of the talented musicians involved in such a remarkable recording.
The repertoire consists of eleven slow tempo ballads that reflect the joy and pain of love and romance. These songs are seldom recorded but were made so remarkable and worthy to any music lover with Johnny Mandel's rich orchestration and superb arrangements as well as Tony Bennett's elegant style of singing. The quality of his voice never changes, there's still that eternal glow in his voice akin to a fine wine that enhances its richness with the passage of time. His vocal elegance has that special kind of power that gets to the listener's ears and evokes a wonderful marriage of elegance and power, and to think that he was in his late seventies when this album was recorded in 2004.
Tony Bennett is not only a great singer but also a talented songwriter as he penned the lyrics of one of the highlights of this album, "All For You," which was adapted from "Nuages" by one of guitar legends, Django Reinhardt. He also gave "I Remember You" the retire-the-trophy treatment and Johnny Mandel presented his flawless arrangement to make this version stand out. It's simply *the best* version I've ever heard so far. I love the tempo on Lee Musiker-arranged-track, Johnny Mandel and David Frishberg's "Little Did I Dream," which features Phil Woods on sax.
Another stand out is his heartfelt and moving interpretation of "Where Do You Start?" -- a poignant song penned by the brilliant team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman and the melody was composed by a gifted Oscar-winning composer and arranger, Johnny Mandel.
"Where do you start?
How do you separate the present from the past?
How do you deal with all the things
you thought would last, that didn't last?
With bits of memories scattered here and there
I look around and don't know where to start
Which books are yours?
Which tapes and dreams belong you
And which are mine?"
Mr. Bennett is also a creative artist having done some artworks and portraits of the fine musicians in this album as shown on the CD inside cover: Gray Sargent (guitar), Lee Musiker (piano), Clayton Cameron (drums), Paul Langosch (bass) and Candido Camero (congas on "Being Alive"). He paints under the name of Anthony Benedetto, his birth name. I'm so impressed with his incredible works of art. I've checked out some of his artworks and I would say they're so charming, especially his watercolor paintings of still life flowers and oil paintings of landscapes.
Thanks so kindly to a friend of mine who recommended this CD to me. It's a CD to treasure and enjoy forever. This is truly an award-winning album. I wholeheartedly recommend it for your listening enjoyment.
Description of The Art of Romance
After the guest-star extravaganza Playin' with My Friends and the k.d. lang duets album What a Wonderful World, Tony Bennett goes his own way, settling into a mellow groove with The Art of Romance. Slow- and midtempo from top to bottom, Romance partakes mostly of deep-dish orchestral takes of classics (three by Johnny Mandel; two by Johnny Mercer). The end-of-the-affair "Where Do You Start" is the disc's quiet heart-stopper, while memories of happier days are conjured by Mercer's "Time to Smile" and the wry Mandel/Dave Frishberg "Little Did I Dream." Perfect fall listening, alone or with a partner, this proves one of the richest albums of the singer's late-career renaissance. --Rickey WrightClassic Vocalists CDs
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