Jazz crooner Tony Bennett: things really get going at 90

Jazz singer Tony Bennett is living proof that life is far from over even at 80: the entertainer celebrated his ninetieth birthday in August, and his new album "Tony Bennett Celebrates 90" is being released today - our "Album of the Week".

The new album by the 19-time Grammy winner was recorded in September at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York and recorded by the television station NBC. The concert was also his 90th birthday party.

Music greats from all over the world came to sing with him or for him, including pop titans Lady Gaga, Elton John and Billy Joel, as well as Tony Bennett's jazz colleagues and stars such as Michael Bublé and Diana Krall, and Stevie Wonder and Andrea Bocelli.

The birthday longplayer is available as a deluxe edition (with three CDs) and in a standard version (one CD). The standard version contains the recordings from the Radio City Music Hall concert and also tracks by the famous guest singers: Lady Gaga (song: "The Lady is a Tramp"), Michael Bublé ("The Good Life"), Elton John ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight").

Billy Joel sings a tribute to New York with Tony Bennett: "New York state of mind", and Diana Krall swings through the song "I've Got the World on a String" with incredible ease and playfulness.

Tony Bennett sings some of his greatest hits with unbroken charm, including "The Best is yet to Come", "I Got Rhythm" and "How Do you Keep the Music Playing". The warm jazz sound with the exquisite voices of Tony Bennett and his superstar friends spreads a timeless and festive feeling.

The triple CD also contains rarities and unreleased tracks from Bennett's oeuvre. Both editions also include a 28-page booklet with essays by Bill Clinton, Martin Scorsese, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Mandel, Bill Charlap and Everett Raymond Kinstler.

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Constant curiosity as a recipe for success - and the joy of entertaining

Anthony Dominick Benedetto, known to the world as Tony Bennett, was born in 1926 in the New York borough of Queens as the son of an Italian grocer, had his first singing gig in New York at the age of ten and gave several concerts with military orchestras as a US soldier in Germany in 1945 and 1946. His stage name at the time was Joe Bari. After his return to the USA, he called himself Tony Bennett.

Perhaps curiosity is his secret: Tony Bennett, the crooning legend from the 1950s, paints every day, wants to live for at least another ten years, keep learning and says of himself: "I really love entertaining people!"

Or it is his motto: "The best is yet to come".

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