Tony Bennett got his break when Bob Hope saw him performing with Pearl Bailey and put him in his stage show. This native of Queens had mega-hits... [MUSIC] A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the ...

The small restaurant and occasional music bistro was closed for Christmas Eve. Its owner Ernie DiVitale had darkened the room. There was light enough, from the Christmas tree in the corner and ...

Tony Bennett's musician daughter is happily following in his footsteps and was lucky enough to grow up under another famous musician's influence. Antonia Bennett shared a core memory of her childhood ...

OJC continues rollout of jazz essentials with “The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album,” The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Jazz at Oberlin” and “The Cats,” featuring Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell ...

Tony Bennett was the last man standing – the saloon crooner, the jazz interpreter, the subtlest of stylists of the Great American Songbook, the man that Sinatra called the greatest popular singer in ...

Few musicians ever captured a profound sense of aloneness like pianist Bill Evans. Throughout a too-brief, 20-odd-year career that ended with his death in 1980, Evans used his nuanced playing to ...

Latest News on Tony Bennett: Lisa Dawn Miller Brings New Show to Her Alpert's Vibrato In LA This March (Mar 5, 2024) Lisa Dawn Miller to Present FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE, THE SONGS OF RON MILLER at Herb ...

Singer ony Bennett, who died Friday at the age of 96, performed frequently in San Diego over the decades. In this 1997 interview with San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga before a concert ...

To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars..." Tony Bennett told me he'd scarcely seen a cable car before he recorded what became his signature song. The sheet music had been in the ...

The legendary crooner, who died July 21, told Terry Gross in 1991 he never got tired of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": "I'm very... Tony Bennett on his first job, Sinatra's advice and San ...

Tony Bennett once waited for my mother to get out of the bathroom. You won’t read that in any of the glowing obituaries being written for him this weekend, but it’s true. He was performing at the Fox ...