The Essential Tony Bennett

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  • Artist: Tony Bennett (See All Albums by Tony Bennett)

  • Date Released: Jun 11, 2002

  • Genre: Rock/Pop, Style: Pop

  • Label: RPM Records/Columbia/Legacy

  • Copyright: Originally Recorded 1964 & Released 2002, Originally Released 1951, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, (P) 1986, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

Total Tracks: 39   Total Length: 119:47

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finalllllllly

charis2

found some music to just sit & sit with...back & bennett

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Qunitessential Tony Bennett

TampaGrampa

If you're a fan of Tony Bennett, you'll love this album.

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By Will Friedwald, eMusic Contributor

More than any other cultural icon, living or otherwise, Tony Bennett is the embodiment of two major musical traditions. On one hand, he's an exuberant pop singer and an old-fashioned entertainer out of the tradition of Judy Garland and Jimmy Durante; at the same time, Bennett is also a jazz musician, deeply influenced by Louis Armstrong, a colleague of Bill Evans. A native of Astoria, New York, Bennett may have started his career as a… more »

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Like most entries in Sony/Legacy’s Essential series, 2002′s The Essential Tony Bennett is an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. Although Bennett spent time at other labels — particularly in the ’70s — he made his best-known and greatest recordings for Columbia, from the late ’50s through the ’90s, which is what provides the bulk of the material here. Though this skips through the ’70s material, it does provide what amounts to Bennett at his best, whether it’s on “Rags to Riches” and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in the ’60s, or on latter-day classics like “Steppin’ out with My Baby.” Bennett surely recorded more great material than can fit on a two-disc, 40-track collection, but this contains the cream of the crop and it’s hard to imagine a collection like this being executed better than this. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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