Product Description

Recorded live with his touring quartet and sixty piece orchestra, 'The Art Of Romance' sees crooner Tony Bennett work his way through eleven classic love songs. With tracks written by the likes of Oscar Hammerstein II, Johnny Mercer, Stephen Sondheim, and Johnny Mandel, the album steers away from the obvious choices that dominate many big band and easy listening albums.

Track Listing

1. Close Enough For Love
2. All In Fun
3. Where Do You Start
4. Little Did I Dream
5. I Remember You
6. Time To Smile
7. All For You
8. The Best Man
9. Don't Like Goodbyes
10. Being Alive
11. Gone With The Wind

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67963 in Music
• Released on: 2004-12-06
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
After the guest-star extravaganza Playin' with My Friends and the k.d. lang duets album What a Wonderful World, Tony Bennett goes his own way, settling into a mellow groove with The Art of Romance. Slow- and midtempo from top to bottom, Romance partakes mostly of deep-dish orchestral takes of classics (three by Johnny Mandel; two by Johnny Mercer). The end-of-the-affair "Where Do You Start" is the disc's quiet heart-stopper, while memories of happier days are conjured by Mercer's "Time to Smile" and the wry Mandel/Dave Frishberg "Little Did I Dream." Perfect fall listening, alone or with a partner, this proves one of the richest albums of the singer's late-career renaissance. --Rickey Wright