Tony Bennett's departure from Columbia Records after 22 years in 1972 inspired the label to
put together a one-volume hits compilation (originally released on two LPs) of 20 songs covering his entire Columbia output, from Boulevard of Broken Dreams and ...
The Disney studio has long set a standard of excellence for its animated films and
other classics, and it's easy sometimes to forget how much music and songs have contributed to the feel and success of those films, reaching all ...
In Person!, part of a series of 1958 collaborations between Tony Bennett and Count Basie,
has an unusually convoluted history. Bennett and Basie appeared together at the Latin Casino in Philadelphia in late November of 1958 in a performance that ...
In 1988, Peggy Lee was persuaded to leave her casual retirement by the promise of
recording some recently unearthed Harold Arlen songs. Her voice was far less attractive and vivacious than it had been even in the '70s, and health ...
All of Rosemary Clooney's Concord albums are easily recommended to jazz listeners, for although she
is not an improviser herself (preferring to state melodies fairly straight but with sincere feeling and a light swing), Clooney has featured top mainstream soloists ...