Astoria: Portrait of the Artist Tony Bennett Primary Artist
by Tony Bennett
2020-04-19 18:24:13
Astoria: Portrait of the Artist Tony Bennett Primary Artist
by Tony Bennett
2020-04-19 18:24:13
Like The Art of Excellence, the album that marked Tony Bennett's return to recording in 1986, Astoria: Portrait of the Artist was a non-thematic collection of new and old songs on which Bennett was backed both by his regular trio, led by pianist {|Ra...
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Like The Art of Excellence, the album that marked Tony Bennett's return to recording in 1986, Astoria: Portrait of the Artist was a non-thematic collection of new and old songs on which Bennett was backed both by his regular trio, led by pianist {|Ralph Sharon|}, and the U.K. Orchestra. Bennett's new songwriting discovery was {|Charles DeForest|}, three of whose songs -- When Do the Bells Ring for Me, Where Do You Go from Love, and I've Come Home Again -- were included, along with songs by the Gershwins and {|Jerome Kern|}, standards like Body and Soul, and even a re-recording of Bennett's initial Columbia recording, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams. That recording had come in 1950, and the point of Astoria (which featured a cover photo of the young Bennett in the old neighborhood, with Bennett today standing in the same spot on the back) was to celebrate that 40-year anniversary while looking into both the past and the future, a task it accomplished admirably.
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