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November 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two records from artists that I believe have been influenced by Nick Cave – and in […]
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October 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Love For Sale Interscope It’s been five years since Tony Bennett’s initial Alzheimer’s diagnosis. And he has just turned 95. This is his recorded swansong. He chose Lady Gaga to share the bill with him, rekindling their duet-connection from 2014’s Cheek to Cheek. This time around rather than just sing […]
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June 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

If You’re Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast: Film

If You’re Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast Director: Danny Gold Shapiro/West Productions, Gold Entertainment Group/HBO The title of this charming documentary comes from a Carl Reiner bit. He recalls the obituary of an actress he had worked with – the only picture featured including Reiner (in his co-staring capacity). He jokes about doing a […]
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December 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 776

Ray Conniff, Here We Come A-Caroling (1966) Every year I buy a new (old) Christmas album. It’s something that’s happened the last few years now – something a bit kitschy or whatever to spin on the turntable. I look for things by artists I actually like: Willie Nelson, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett…they’re all in there…this […]
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May 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 899

k.d. lang, Ingénue  (1992) At the time, when k.d. lang was first receiving notices, I wasn’t at all interested. What sold me on her remarkable talent was hearing her in a context I could appreciate – her duet with Tony Bennett from his Unplugged album. Wonderful voice. I was sold. (I had always enjoyed Constant […]
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January 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek Streamline/Columbia/Interscope Ever since his MTV Unplugged album/show/comeback Tony Bennett has been brilliant at seemingly reinventing himself while essentially lining up to do the very same thing he’s always done. He’s as spritely as can be – he’ll be 89 next birthday! – and he keeps finding new […]
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May 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Bennett: Life Is A Gift – The Zen of Bennett

Tony Bennett Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett Harper At 86, when you’ve been performing for over 60 years too, you should be allowed to stop, step-back and smell the roses, view them through rose-tints even. And, sure, that’s what Tony Bennett does right here. But I preferred this to a previous memoir […]
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December 28, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1698

The Ralph Sharon Trio, Music For The Late Hours: The Tony Bennett Song Book The name Ralph Sharon only meant something to me when I heard the MTV Unplugged album by Tony Bennett. Bennett even says, as part of his act, that Sharon has been a dedicated accompanist, the pianist on so many of the […]
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