Bill Evans, Tony Bennett - The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings
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Artist: Bill Evans, Tony BennettBrand: BENNETT,TONY
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2009-04-14
Music Label: Fantasy Records
Product features:
- BENNETT TONY / EVANS BILL THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Young and Foolish
- The Touch of Your Lips
- Some Other Time
- When in Rome
- We'll Be Together Again
- My Foolish Heart
- Waltz for Debby
- But Beautiful
- The Days of Wine and Roses
- The Bad and the Beautiful
- Lucky to Be Me
- Make Someone Happy
- You're Nearer
- A Child Is Born
- The Two Lonely People
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- Maybe September
- Lonely Girl
- You Must Believe in Spring
- Who Can I Turn To?
- Dream Dancing
- Young and Foolish [alternate, take 4]
- The Touch of Your Lips [alternate, take 1]
- Some Other Time [alternate, take 7]
- When in Rome [alternate, take 11]
- Waltz for Debby [alternate, take 8]
- The Bad and the Beautiful [alternate, take 1]
- The Bad and the Beautiful [alternate, take 2]
- Make Someone Happy [alternate, take 5]
- You're Nearer [alternate, take 9]
- A Child Is Born [alternate, take 2]
- A Child Is Born [alternate, take 7]
- The Two Lonely People [alternate, take 5]
- You Don't Know What Love Is [alternate, take 16]
- You Don't Know What Love Is [alternate, take 168
- Maybe September [alternate, take 5]
- Maybe September [alternate, take 8]
- Lonely Girl [alternate, take 1]
- You Must Believe in Spring [alternate, take 1]
- You Must Believe in Spring [alternate, take 4]
- Who Can I Turn To? [alternate, take 6]
Free Music Notes for The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings
Free Music Review: Tony's "Nelson Riddle" Triumphs (or Coltrane/Hartman moment)
Hit: 5 Stars
Tony's two sessions with Bill Evans arguably represent the apex of his career and justifiably bring higher prices as used copies than any number of his big production albums (like the "Duets"), the relaxed sessions with his trio (led by pianist Ralph Sharon), or the many "Best of," "Ultimate," or "Essential" anthologies. There are close observers of the Great American Songbook and its primary caretakers who feel that the most inspired, exemplary and significant expressions of this indigenous art form are to be found in the "concept albums" of Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle. Each is thematically and musically organized, resulting in stunning, unified, organic "tone poems," or "suites." To name just three striking examples, there are the swing-themed occasions, like "Songs for Swinging Lovers" (Capitol); the introspective, often gut-wrenching, unflinching and elegiac torch albums (Sinatra called them "wrist-slashers" or "suicide songs") like "Only the Lonely" (Capitol); and finally the Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein-inspired, semi-operatic (and dramatic) blockbusters, like "The Concert Sinatra" (Reprise).
I would argue that Tony Bennett's meetings with Bill Evans comprise his equivalent of Sinatra's transformation of a poorly understood popular form into art of the highest order. Now that the smoke has cleared concerning the last 50 years of jazz history, it becomes ever clearer that the music's direction and language have been shaped, above all, by two seminal geniuses: pianist Bill Evans and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane (for the first 50 years, three musicians must be viewed as having a similar, possibly greater influence: Louis Armstrong (perhaps Tony's primary influence), Charlie Parker, and Duke Ellington (in whom Tony finds a "spirituality" that many younger listeners identify with Coltrane). And none of the foregoing is meant to take anything away from the undeniable influence of Miles Davis--less as a soloist (though he was much better than many listeners realize) than as a facilitator, standing at the vanguard of every important movement from bebop to fusion and hip-hop.
The point is that just as it's become a no-brainer to identify the greatest recording ever made by vocalist Johnny Hartman because of the presence of John Coltrane ("John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" continues to win new admirers with each passing year), the presence of Bill Evans lessens the greater difficulty of selecting a comparable outstanding moment in Bennett's far more numerous discography.
It used to annoy me that many listeners familiar with the first of the two giants' meetings were clueless about the second, which may be even slightly stronger in its programmatic and musical elements than the first. Now that oversight has been corrected, and it's about time that after all of these years, conflicts between two different labels do not deprive the discerning listening public from discovering the glowing, singular, inexhaustible life and beauty of both sessions.
If you have the two individual sessions, it may be a tough decision--the "Complete" version has numerous alternate takes that will not necessarily fit the needs or priorities of many listeners (I know quite a few musicians who have come to resent alternate takes and bonus tracks). But just as I found it necessary to order "The Complete Bill Evans Vanguard Sessions" (from 1961, with Scott LaFaro), despite possessing the two LPs and two CDs of the same Sunday afternoon date, I'd recommend the same consideration for this latest complete package of a rare moment, or landmark (make it two), in America music. On the other hand, if you have both Evans/Bennett sessions in their original format and have yet to experience Bill Evans' "The Last Waltz" and "Consecration," the priority has to be given the latter two performances. Be prepared to become absorbed--deeply and lengthily. There's nothing-- on record or in American music--comparable to either box set. (Think Mozart's death-bed "Requiem"--heavy, deep, urgent, equally sublime and tragic, yet affirmative of the creative, unstoppable human spirit--all centered on a dying, depleted human specimen with nothing more than ineffable melodies to sustain him. But the music had to be played--and miraculously it was--if by the narrowest of margins. Putting Tony Bennett (or any vocalist) in the presence of such a musician may be the equivalent of singing with a scintillating Riddle or Mandel orchestration and ensemble--or better. (Sadly, we can only imagine what a Sinatra-Evans meeting might have produced.)
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