But Beautiful from 'The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album'

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Bill Evans

Bill Evans

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Forty years ago, renowned entertainer Tony Bennett joined together with legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans for their first of two duet albums. The result was 1975’s The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album, followed by Together Again the following year. To celebrate this incredible coupling of talents, Fantasy Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, will release a deluxe, 180-gram vinyl box set. Venerated as a special moment in the history of jazz, the two albums, plus two discs’ worth of alternate takes and bonus tracks, are combined in this four-LP, 180-gram vinyl collection, The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings. Included is a collectible 12x12 photograph of the two musicians, as well as a deluxe 12-page booklet featuring rare images and extensive liner notes by Will Friedwald (co-author of Tony Bennett’s autobiography, The Good Life).
This unique pairing began with 1975’s The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, recorded during an intimate session at Fantasy Studios (producer Helen Keane and an engineer were the only other people present). At work in equal partnership, Bennett and Evans selected the tunes, worked out the arrangements semi-spontaneously, and, later, picked the final takes to be used. Bennett recalls that the pair didn't even discuss song choices before the session: “I would name a tune, and Bill would say, ‘That's good, let’s do that.’ We'd find a key and then the two of us would work it out.”
The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album features a selection of classics from the Great American Songbook (“The Days of Wine and Roses,” “Young and Foolish,” “The Touch of Your Lips”), as well as a moving rendition of the Evans’ classic tune "Waltz for Debby" (with lyrics written by Gene Lees). A consistently enthusiastic and balanced musical team, Bennett and Evans shine both individually and in tandem.
Following the recording, the pair performed live on a number of occasions and made several television appearances, including a stop on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
In 1976, Bennett and Evans returned to the studio for Together Again. Another low-lights, high-improv date of standards that opens with an Evans solo rendition of “The Bad and the Beautiful” and continues with such moving renditions of “Lucky to Be Me,” “You’re Nearer,” and “You Don't Know What Love Is.” Another Evans original, “The Two Lonely People” (with lyrics by Carol Hall), also graces the playlist.
Both sessions - in which Bennett and Evans recorded together in the same room, not in isolation booths (a recording preference that Bennett has practiced throughout his recording career)- yielded several fine alternate takes that are included, as well as bonus tracks from the second date.
With such palpable energy and nearly telepathic interplay, these recordings have garnered critical awe over the years since their release. London’s The Guardian noted in 2009, “The outcome of this intimate duet highlighted the sublime creative accompanist in Evans, and the deep jazz sensitivities of the vocal legend … the two sound as if they’re having the time of their lives.” The BBC mused, “It seems impossible that these two giants of understated musical sophistication went into the studio with no idea of what they would record … They plucked one definitive performance after another out of thin air to produce a nine-track album - called, with straightforward simplicity, The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album - that was bettered only by its solitary follow-up, the following year’s Together Again.” AllMusic simply called the collaboration an “excellent jazz-pop hybrid in which both musicians were shown off to advantage.”
The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings joins several recent and forthcoming releases, celebrating the career of Bill Evans. Aside from a handful of reissued albums on vinyl, fans can also look forward to CD box set reissues The Complete Riverside Recordings and The Complete Fantasy Recordings this spring and fall, respectively. Also available is the highly acclaimed deluxe LP box set The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, which hit store shelves in the fall of 2014.
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@davidhalldurham
@davidhalldurham Жыл бұрын
"And I'm thinking, if you were mine, I'd never let you go." What a gorgeous lyric!
@christopherlyons5900
@christopherlyons5900 7 ай бұрын
Johnny Burke. He wrote a lot of lyrics people know but don't know. who wrote them.
@WarrenSenders
@WarrenSenders Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Tony.
@greenbyrdd8308
@greenbyrdd8308 Жыл бұрын
Just the piano and that incomparable voice. Perfection.
@LouisGLacey-jf6cg
@LouisGLacey-jf6cg 10 ай бұрын
The chemistry between these 2 artists
@adriennepender673
@adriennepender673 3 жыл бұрын
Just... Sublime.
@deeannlouis8259
@deeannlouis8259 3 жыл бұрын
Magic
@RonCarterBassist
@RonCarterBassist Жыл бұрын
Wonderful... 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@luzialeao6252
@luzialeao6252 Жыл бұрын
Lindíssimo!
@micsibere
@micsibere Жыл бұрын
RIP Tony Bennett!
@alexandergonzalez50666
@alexandergonzalez50666 10 ай бұрын
Love is funny, or it's sad Or it's quiet, or it's mad It's a good thing or it's bad But beautiful Beautiful to take a chance And if you fall you fall And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind at all Love is tearful, or it's gay It's a problem or it's play It's a heartache either way But beautiful And I'm thinking if you were mine I'd never let you go And that would be but beautiful I know But beautiful And I'm thinking if you were mine I'd never let you go And that would be but beautiful I know...
@kennethmeyer1276
@kennethmeyer1276 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@tazsays3281
@tazsays3281 4 жыл бұрын
Woof, woof!
@Imotep.20
@Imotep.20 3 жыл бұрын
LINDO!
@jadezee6316
@jadezee6316 2 жыл бұрын
every great singer knows this song....by Edward Chester Babcock....is a complete Masterpiece...
@danielstrecht
@danielstrecht 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@dorisgrammar3326
@dorisgrammar3326 Жыл бұрын
@bjackblack
@bjackblack 4 ай бұрын
So good 😎✨
@FrostRare
@FrostRare Жыл бұрын
1:19 that transition…
@truettneathery4358
@truettneathery4358 3 жыл бұрын
Shirley Horne does this one as well - plays her own accomp. !!
@timofeygolev
@timofeygolev 2 ай бұрын
0:13
@christopherlyons5900
@christopherlyons5900 7 ай бұрын
Very beautiful. But Billie Holiday's was more so. The romanticism is here. Not the deep sadness.
@timofeygolev
@timofeygolev 2 ай бұрын
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