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  • Artist: Tony Bennett
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2011
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886976625320
  • Item Number: COL662532
  • Release date: 09/20/2011
  • 1. The Lady Is A Tramp (with Lady Gaga)
  • 2. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (with John Mayer)
  • 3. Body And Soul (with Amy Winehouse)
  • 4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (with Michael Buble)
  • 5. Blue Velvet (with k.d. lang)
  • 6. How Do You Keep The Music Playing (with Aretha Franklin)
  • 7. The Girl I Love (with Sheryl Crow)
  • 8. On The Sunny Side of the Street (Willie Nelson)
  • 9. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) (with Queen Latifah)
  • 10. Speak Low (with Norah Jones)
  • 11. This Is All I Ask (with Josh Groban)
  • 12. Watch What Happens (with Natalie Cole)
  • 13. Stranger In Paradise (with Andrea Bocelli)
  • 14. The Way You Look Tonight (with Faith Hill)
  • 15. Yesterday I Heard The Rain (with Alejandro Sanz)
  • 16. It Had To Be You (with Carrie Underwood)
  • 17. When Do The Bells Ring For Me (with Mariah Carey)
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Duets II by Tony Bennett on CD


Tony Bennett's first album of celebrity duets (2006's Duets: An American Classic) featured an impressive cast of superstars answering the call from the dean of pop vocalists, but the arrangements were overly safe -- virtually all of them ballads with soft strings or brassy finger-snappers. Duets II follows the first by five years and features, surprisingly, a cast just as star-laden, but also arrangements that are much more dynamic, and suitable for each song and its participants. (Marion Evans, a veteran whose career goes back nearly as far as Bennett's, handles the charts for a few of the best here.) Bennett, as ever in splendid voice and impeccable groove, laughs and trades lines with stars half his age (like John Mayer), or in the case of Lady Gaga, six decades younger, and clearly makes them so comfortable in this setting that it would be easy to believe that jazz vocals were their home. Standard fare yields standard results for the likes of Michael Buble and Josh Groban, but all of these songs have something to contribute. Bennett is especially tender and expressive with k.d. lang on "Blue Velvet" (the two had already collaborated on a full album), and he clearly enjoys his pairing with Willie Nelson for "On the Sunny Side of the Street." (Nelson takes a guitar solo, and shows some of the vocal shadings that during the '60s made him as expressive a vocalist as Bennett.) The album wisely covers all bases, including stars of country music (Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill), R&B (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse), and one-shots for rock & roll (Sheryl Crow), Latin music (Alejandro Sanz), and classical (Andrea Bocelli). Celebrity musical pairings rarely lead to innovation or excitement, but Duets II is an enjoyable celebration of what Tony Bennett has meant to pop music, and what he can bring out in any star vocalist he steps up to the microphone with. ~ John Bush, Rovi
  • Artist: Tony Bennett
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2011
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886976625320
  • Item Number: COL662532
  • Release date: 09/20/2011
  • Label: Sony Music Entertainment
  • Genre: Jazz, Vocal, Vocal, Vocal, Jazz, Jazz, Vocal, Jazz, Vocal
  • Style: Jazz Instrument, American Popular Song, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz, Standards, Guitar Jazz, Vocal Pop, Contemporary Jazz Vocals
  • Album Time: 63:14

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Duets II Tony Bennett CD