[SACD-R][OF] Tony Bennett - Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues - 2001 (Jazz, Vocal)

Tony Bennett / Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues Жанр: Jazz, Vocal Страна-производитель диска: USA Год издания: 2001 Издатель (лейбл): RPM Records/Columbia Номер по каталогу: CS 85833 Страна: USA Тип рипа: PS3, image (ISO) Кодек: DST 2.0, 5.1 Битрейт аудио: 1 bit/2,8224 MHz Продолжительность: 57:20 Источник (релизер): pssacd Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да Треклист: 1. Tony Bennett with Diana Krall – Alright, Okay, You Win 03:31 2. Tony Bennett with Stevie Wonder – Everyday (I Have The Blues) 03:39 3. Tony Bennett – Don’t Cry Baby 02:43 4. Tony Bennett with Sheryl Crow – Good Morning, Heartache 04:56 5. Tony Bennett with B.B. King – Let The Good Times Roll 03:14 6. Tony Bennett with Ray Charles – Evenin’ 04:15 7. Tony Bennett with Bonnie Raitt – I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 03:55 8. Tony Bennett with K.D. Lang – Keep The Faith, Baby 03:51 9. Tony Bennett – Old Count Basie Is Gone (Old Piney Brown Is Gone) 03:25 10. Tony Bennett with Kay Starr – Blue And Sentimental 03:21 11. Tony Bennett with Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind 04:31 12. Tony Bennett – Undecided Blues 03:18 13. Tony Bennett – Blues In The Night 03:34 14. Tony Bennett with Natalie Cole – Stormy Weather 04:35 15. Tony Bennett with Various Duet Artists – Playin’ With My Friends 04:47   Об альбоме (сборнике) Playin’ with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues is an 2001 album by Tony Bennett, featuring duets with notable vocalists. Allmusic Review Tony Bennett’s latter-day albums tend to have themes, and this one has two, as indicated by its double-barreled title: It is both a duets album and a blues album. The duet partners include ten singers who range from his recent touring partners Diana Krall and k.d. lang to fellow veterans Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Kay Starr, and younger, but still mature pop stars Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and Billy Joel. All sound happy to be sharing a mic with Bennett. Not surprisingly, the singer’s conception of the blues does not extend to the Mississippi Delta or the South Side of Chicago; rather, he is interested in the blues as filtered through the sound of the Swing Era, particularly from around Kansas City, and as interpreted by Tin Pan Alley and show tunes. For the former, his true mentor is Count Basie, whose overt influence is heard on six of the 15 tracks. Bennett makes no attempt to hide this, leading off the album with two songs, “Alright, Okay, You Win” (a duet with Krall) and “Everyday (I Have the Blues)” (a duet with Wonder), closely associated with Basie singer Joe Williams. The Broadway and Hollywood blues style is introduced in three selections written by Harold Arlen. On about half the tracks, the Ralph Sharon Quartet is augmented by Harry Allen’s saxophone and Mike Melvoin’s Hammond organ, but this remains a small, intimate affair that emphasizes the singers. There are missteps — Sheryl Crow’s Billie Holiday impersonation on “Good Morning, Heartache” is unfortunate, and Natalie Cole, as usual, sounds out of her depth on “Stormy Weather.” But the trade-offs Bennett enjoys with King and Charles are priceless, and the Joel duet is surprisingly effective. On the whole, this is yet another entry in Bennett’s lengthening series of autumnal recorded triumphs.