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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death on Friday of Tony Bennett, the consummate exponent of what is known as the “American Songbook,” has triggered tributes by artists, singers and colleagues from all over the world. One senses ...

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 ...