Tony Bennett
Royal Albert Hall
London
UK
28th June 2017

Lineage: Olympus LS14 Recorder (internal mics) > 24 bit > amadeus pro > 16 bit > xld > flac
taper: rayrad


Tony Bennett Quartet

01. intro
02. On The Street Where You Live
03. Someone To Watch Over Me
04. Cheek To Cheek medley


Set 2

Tony Bennett

01. intro
02. Watch What Happens (Michel Legrand / Norman Gimbel)
03. They All Laughed (George & Ira Gershwin)
04. This Is All I Ask (Gordon Jenkins)
05. I Got Rhythm (George & Ira Gershwin)
06. Solitude (Duke Ellington / Eddie De Lange / Irving Mills)
07. I'm Old Fashioned (Jerome Kern / Johnny Mercer)
08. It Amazes Me (Carolyn Leigh / Cy Coleman)
09. Steppin' Out With My Baby (Irving Berlin)
10. But Beautiful (Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke)
11. Love Is Here To Stay (George & Ira Gershwin)
12. The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields)
13. chat
14. Because Of You (Arthur Hammerstein / Dudley Wilkinson)
15. Stranger In Paradise (Robert Wright / George Forrest [after Borodin])
16. Rags To Riches (Richard Adler / Jerry Ross) (tease)
17. Who Can I Turn To? (Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley)
18. Just In Time (Jule Styne / Betty Comden / Adolph Green)
19. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Al Dubin / Harry Warren)
20. The Good Life (Jack Reardon / Sacha Distel)
21. How Do You Keep The Music Playing (Michel Legrand / Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
22. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel / Paul Francis Webster)
23. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer)
24. For Once In My Life (Ron Miller / Orlando Murden)
25. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (George Cory / Douglass Cross)
26. Who Cares? (As Long As You Care For Me) (George & Ira Gershwin)
27. Smile (Charlie Chaplin / John Turner / Geoffrey Parsons)
28. When You're Smiling (Larry Shay / Mark Fisher / Joe Goodwin)
29. Fly Me To The Moon (un-mic-ed) (Bart Howard)
30. crowd + curtain calls


Tony Bennett - vocals
Billy Stritch - piano
Gray Sargent - guitar
Hal Jones - drums
Marshall Wood - bass


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if there�s one thing that tony bennett has in spades - but many in this audience have never known - it�s class

two months shy of his 91st birthday, he is - as ever - the perfect blend of consummate showman and twinkly-eyed great uncle

at a live show, he is in his element

and it will take more than a higher than usual percentage of philistines to spoil it

but for those of us used to a hushed silence and awed reverence while he performs, things are not so peachy

maybe it�s the recent collaboration with lady gaga that have brought them, but there are many in tonight who have no idea how to behave outside of a football match or a hen night

the two boys in their early 20s behind me who bellow �toneeeeeeeee!� after every tune, do at least do so between the songs

the man old enough to know much better who yells �love you, tony!!� at the top of his lungs right in the middle of �the way you look tonight� - well - i�ll let you make your own minds about him

and as for the woman who screams something about the lights during the un-mic-ed �Fly Me To The Moon��

tony bennett�s career had its hey day in a time before we were all told all day every day that �me, me, me� was the only song worth singing

when making sure everyone noticed you actually required you to have done something worth noticing - rather than just being an end in itself

hey ho

we live in the times in which we live

but we should count ourselves lucky to still have artists like tony bennett to remind us of a time that, if not better, at least had a little more� class

i always assume that it�ll be the last time i see tony perform

and because of that, i always want it to be perfect - want it to feel like no one but he, his quartet and me are in the room

but he always surprises me

i�ll be in the room for his 95th birthday tour

maybe even his 100th birthday tour

and try as they might, no one can really spoil it for me

tune out everyone else

and enjoy

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