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  Tony Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tony Bennett (born August 3, 1926) is an American popular music, standards, and jazz singer who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres.
Tony Bennett is also a serious and accomplished painter.
Bennett also built up the quality and reputation of his nightclub act; in this he was following the path of Sinatra and other top jazz and standards singers of this era.
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 Ramsey County CB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tony left the Minnesota House in 1990 when he was appointed United States Marshal for the State of Minnesota, a position that he held until 1994.
Tony’s public service was not complete; in 1996 he ran for and was elected to a seat on the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners.
Tony was elected on January 3rd, 2006 to serve as the Ramsey County Board’s Chair.
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 Tony Bennett
Bennett has stressed, mantra-like, the importance of self-sufficiency to his daughter: "A lot of parents who are well-off give their children whatever they want.
Bennett committed himself to singing songs that appealed to all ages, a principle that would guide him for the next 50 years.
Bennett takes her coat, backs up, and says, "You look so nice." His eyes squint, his cheeks dimple, and he flashes that trademark smile, full blast.
www.aarpmagazine.org /entertainment/Articles/a2003-06-18-bennett.html   (1899 words)

  
 CRESC - People: Professor Tony Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bennett (2005) 'The historical universal: the role of cultural value in the historical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu', British Journal of Sociology, 56 (1), 141-164.
Bennett, Savage, Silva, Warde, Gayo-Cal, and Wright (2005) 'Cultural capital and the cultural field in contemporary Britain', CRESC Working Paper Series, No. 3, University of Manchester and the Open University.
Bennett (2005) 'Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the social', CRESC Working Paper Series, No. 2, University of Manchester and the Open University.
www.cresc.man.ac.uk /people/tony_bennett.htm   (751 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Tony Bennett's Wonderful World Live in San Francisco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For all this, Bennett's onstage persona is humble yet exuberant, he accepts the crowd's applause as though it is for his musicians and his material as much as for himself.
Kvelling to be singing with Bennett, she treats him with the respect due a beloved father, and in turn, he sings with her like a proud poppa.
Tony Bennett has already had one of the most distinct, long-lived and successful careers in music, and this DVD shows him to still be in there pushing.
www.ink19.com /issues/february2003/screenReviews/tonyBennettsWonderful.html   (702 words)

  
 NPR's Jazz Profiles: Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett could easily be called one of the best friends the great American songbook has ever had.
While Bennett was signing on Columbia Records' esteemed roster, superstar crooner Frank Sinatra was just leaving the label due to the ever-popular "creative differences." A young, impressionable Bennett thought Columbia was looking for another Sinatra, but he was quickly advised to stop imitating "Old Blue Eyes" and develop a style of his own.
Now in his mid-seventies, Tony Bennett has a revitalized his career and is now more popular among a wider audience of fans than ever.
www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/bennett.html   (912 words)

  
 CBS News | Tony Bennett Breaks Tradition on New CD
Bennett has also written an autobiography, "The Good Life," and enjoyed a lifelong passion for painting, taking pride that his oil landscape, "Central Park," a view from his Manhattan apartment window signed with his family name Benedetto, was recently added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Bennett's debut as a lyricist, a hopeful song about falling in love that he titled "All For You" and adapted from Reinhardt's music, is among the highlights of "The Art of Romance," nominated for a Grammy as best traditional pop vocal album.
Bennett, the son of an Italian-immigrant grocer, is also looking forward to groundbreaking ceremonies later this year on a permanent home for the public performing arts high school he helped found in his old neighborhood _ the Astoria section of Queens.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/03/ap/entertainment/mainD8FHU4CO0.shtml   (1243 words)

  
 Tony Bennett News
Never mind that celebrities such as Tony Bennett and Kirk Douglas admire the work of Argentinian-born painter, muralist, and printmaker Juan Manuel Sanchez: this artist is a master in his own right.
Tony Bennett will celebrate his 80th birthday in style - with a star-studded music special on NBC to be directed and executive produced by "Chicago" helmer Rob Marshall.
Singer Tony Bennett is shown during a jazz event in New York, in this Jan. 13, 2006, file photo.
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 CD Review of Tony Bennett - The Complete Improv Recordings on Concord @ jazzreview.com
Bennett’s duo session with Bill Evans, the follow-up to their Fantasy release The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, remains nineteenth among a cross-section of professional jazz singers as the “all-time favorite jazz vocal recordings,” according to a recent issue of Down Beat.
For instance, Bennett opens the vocal album with a piano solo on “The Bad And The Beautiful,” teasing his listeners in anticipation of the voice that doesn’t come in and setting the stage for a recording that values the accompanist on an equal basis with the singer.
As ebullient as Bennett’s singing may be, Evans’ solos attract attention for their gossamer, inimitable style, which already was evident on the same songs in several preceding Evans albums.
www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=8177   (894 words)

  
 Celebrity Artist: Tony Bennett
Bennett believes that by just being in the company of other artists, one can be inspired.
Bennett 's painting of him, titled "Homage to Hockney," is on permanent display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
Bennett's work, hand-signed and numbered by the artist in a limited-edition of 300 prints, have been recently released.
www.go-star.com /framer/tony_bennett.htm   (1118 words)

  
 Mel Torme & Tony Bennett : The Song Stylists
Singer Tony Bennett is one of the essential interpreters of the American songbook, matching (perhaps surpassing) the individual worldwide contributions of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby.
Bennett's voice today has a huskier edge than the smooth tone of his younger days, but he retains the same sense of swing, passion for lyrical expression and drama, and sincere, warmhearted delivery.
Bennett's voice is deepening from tenor toward baritone by the time of this recording, and his warmth and intimacy come through strongly, in spite of the less-than-perfect sound quality.
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 Ink 19 :: Tony Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tony Bennett has already had one of the most distinct, long-lived and successful careers in music, but what we have here is a perfectly comfy but unnecessary collection.
Tony Bennett, has, of course, sung many songs from the “Great American Songbook.” From his signature piece, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” to “Steppin’ Out With My Baby,” to “For Once in My Life.” Trouble is, big as it is, eventually the songbook runs out of pages.
No less an authority than Sinatra himself sung Bennett's praises, and one likes to think "The Chairman" would be pleased at his friend's status as the Last Man Standing.
www.ink19.com /issues/april2005/musicReviews/musicB/tonyBennett.html   (443 words)

  
 CMT.com : Tony Bennett : Biography
Bennett grew up in the Astoria section of the borough of Queens in New York City under the name Anthony Dominick Benedetto.
Bennett's next studio album, 1963's I Wanna Be Around, also made the Top Five, and its title track was another Top 20 hit, as was Bennett's next single, "The Good Life," also featured on the album.
Now managed by his son Danny, Bennett shrewdly found ways to attract the attention of the MTV generation without changing his basic style of singing songs from the Great American Songbook while wearing a tuxedo.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/bennett_tony/bio.jhtml   (1073 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Tony Bennett
Tony at the time was billed as Joe Bari, a name Hope did not care for.
In 1951 Tony Bennett had his first hit, "Because of You." It soared to the top of the pop charts and stayed there for 10 weeks.
In 2001, Bennett and his partner Susan Crow paid tribute to yet another friend and founded the Frank Sinatra School for the Arts in Queens, a public high school dedicated to teaching the performing arts.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=7790&source_type=A   (904 words)

  
 Tony Bennett @ Filmbug
Tony Bennett is an American popular music, standards, and jazz singer who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres.
Bennett's recording of Blue Velvet was also very popular and attracted screaming teenage fans at concerts in the famed Paramount Theatre in New York and elsewhere.
In 1971 Bennett and his wife Patricia were divorced, their marriage a victim (Bennett said) of too much time on the road.
www.filmbug.com /db/945   (2659 words)

  
 Scott Wheeler REVIEW: TONY BENNETT
Basie would be proud to see his friend in action today, a quarter-century later, for Bennett is enjoying the best of both worlds, having extended his appeal to a new generation without compromising his hard-won status as one of American pop music’s foremost elder statesmen.
Even as he continues to stake new claims in the entertainment world, Tony Bennett remains everything he ever was, as he brilliantly demonstrated Sunday night in a sold-out concert at Bridgewater State College.
As Bennett himself loves to point out, it’s a long way from the days when he was struggling as a singing waiter in his hometown of Astoria, New York and dreaming of a career as a singer and painter.
members.aol.com /scottwheelerband/bennet.htm   (811 words)

  
 Tony Bennett:
Bennett’s daughters, now in their 30s, are Joanna, a model, and Antonia, a singer with whom he often proudly appears.
Bennett actually has four art teachers – Kinstler, Charles Reid, Robert Wade, Basil Baylin – strung out over several hemispheres, depending on where the singer who lives out of a suitcase while he performs all over the map happens to be at any given moment.
Tony Bennett has just been notified that he’s to be one of this year’s Kennedy Center honorees.
www.nycplus.com /nycp6/tonybennett.html   (2544 words)

  
 Tony Bennett - Book Tony Bennett for Corporate Events, Fund Raisers
Bennett's duet with female jazz/blues singing great Kay Starr on Basie's "Blue and Sentimental" fulfills the Count's long-ago wish that Bennett both record the song and cut it with Starr.
Tony Bennett is one of a handful of artists to have new albums charting in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
Bennett re-signed with Columbia Records in 1986 and released the critically acclaimed The Art Of Excellence.
www.onlinetalent.com /Tony_Bennett.htm   (1641 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Tony Bennett to replace his father as WSU coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tony Bennett is building a home for his family in Pullman, and said he believes WSU can become a basketball hotbed with some success.
Tony Bennett played for his father at Wisconsin-Green Bay, and later played with Charlotte and Cleveland in the NBA before moving into coaching.
Washington State did not originally guarantee that Tony Bennett would be the next head coach, though the likelihood had been acknowledged publicly.
www.usatoday.com /sports/college/mensbasketball/pac10/2005-09-24-wash-state-bennett_x.htm   (541 words)

  
 Open University Staff - Tony Bennett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bennett, T. (2002) ‘Sociology and government' in Hamilton and Thompson (eds) The Uses of Sociology, Oxford : Blackwells, pp.
Bennett, T. (2002) ‘Culture and governmentality' in Jack Bratich, Jeremy Packer and Cameron McCarthy (eds) Foucault, Cultural Studies and Governmentality, New York : SUNY Press, pp.
Bennett, T. (2000) 'Intellectuals, culture, policy: the technical, the practical and the critical', Pavis Papers in Social and Cultural Research, no. 2, Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Milton Keynes, The Open University.
www.open.ac.uk /socialsciences/staff/tbennett/info.html   (636 words)

  
 Jazz Concert Review - The Art of Tony Bennett@ jazzreview.com
Performing a concert titled Tony Bennett: The Art of Song at the Hollywood Bowl, the great singer seemed as ageless as the wonderful tunes he delivered.
Opening the proceedings was a small version of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with a short set of early 20th century jazz under the baton and trumpet of Jeff Tyzik.
Bennett's twenty-four song set included several of his biggest hits and some of the best-loved songs of the last century--two categories that are far from mutually exclusive.
www.jazzreview.com /article/review-4285.html   (495 words)

  
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Tony Bennett (3 August 1926 -) was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Astoria, New York, United States.
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 Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett is the kind of artist that moves the hearts and souls of audiences.
In December 1993, Bennett shared the stage with a number of Alternative Nation luminaries--including Billy Idol, They Might Be Giants, Juliana Hatfield, the Lemonheads, Cowboy Junkies, Belly, and Porno For Pyros--in a series of six Christmas concerts hosted by alternative rock radio stations across the country.
Bennett’s Astoria: Portrait of the Artist, which brought a nomination for a 1990 Grammy award, was named after the singer’s hometown of Astoria, Queens.
www.pattersonandassociates.com /bios/Tony_Bennett   (1409 words)

  
 Jazz | All About Jazz
Tony Bennett began his career as a singing waiter in his Queens, NY neighborhood.
Bennett’s relationship with Jazz is simultaneously tangential and deep.
Bennett truly shares the spotlight to afford pianist Evans equal room; the mutual warmth between these two great balladeers is palpable.
wwww.allaboutjazz.com /library/tbennett.htm   (641 words)

  
 Tony Bennett @ Soundbug
Tony Bennett (born 1926) is an American popular music, standards, and jazz singer who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres.
Bennett and his wife Patricia had been separated since 1965, their marriage a victim of too much time on the road among other factors, and in 1971 their divorce became official.
Bennett will be a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 2005.
www.soundbug.com /artist/78   (2967 words)

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