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Tony Bennett - An American Classic.(2006)-gRinDsMan

type. music
formaat. DVD9
bron. DVD9
taal. engels
ondertitels. 
duur. 42 min en 43 min aan extra's


High concept and high class, An American Classic is a worthy visual complement
to Tony Bennett's 2006 duets CD of the same name. The notion of pairing veteran
artists with a variety of singing partners is nothing new, of course (cf. B.B.
King and Frank Sinatra, among many others), but this one goes a step further;
under the direction of Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha) and his team,
Bennett appears in what's described as a "docu-musical," faithfully re-creating
a variety of performance settings much like the ones in which the 80-year-old
singer has appeared in the course of his long, fruitful career. Thus we find him
on a concert stage with Barbra Streisand ("Smile"), in a nightclub with John
Legend (a swinging, uptempo "Sing, You Sinners"), in the studio with k.d. lang
and trumpeter Chris Botti ("Because of You"), on a '60s-style TV variety show
with Diana Krall (a classy "The Best is Yet to Come"), in Vegas with Elton John
("Rags To Riches") and then Michael Buble (an amusing "Just in Time"), and so
forth, on up to Bennett's triumphant shot on MTV Unplugged with Christina
Aguilera (no jazz singer, but she keeps most of her excesses in check on
"Steppin' Out") and the inevitable "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (Bennett
with piano accompaniment only). It's all very respectful, well staged,
and entertainingly choreographed, but if this 45-minute cavalcade has a
significant shortcoming, it's that it mostly lacks fire and spontaneity; the
only time Bennett cuts loose is during an audio-only "I Got Rhythm" heard under
the various DVD menus. Viewers may also be disappointed that Sting, Bono, Paul
McCartney, James Taylor, the Dixie Chicks, and several others on the CD do not
appear here, and it's a notable drag that not a single one of the composers or
arrangers of the material is identified. Bonus features include a "making of"
documentary and other featurettes.


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