He had uncanny instincts and made an art out of the "Duets" concept, pairing Sinatra with U2 frontman Bono, Luther Vandross and other younger artists, Bennett with McCartney and Barbra Streisand, and Charles with Bonnie Raitt and Van Morrison.
In the visually muddy but musically valuable kinescopes of " Sinatra: The Classic Duets " (Hart Sharp Video), Frank Sinatra sings with other greats (Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Lena Horne) and such ingratiating less-than-greats as Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
The album features duets with Miles Davis, Sheryl Crow, Paul Young, Brian May, Sting and The Cranberries' Delores O'Riordan.
His latest album, Just Across the River, features a series of duets with some of the singers he wrote for, including Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams and Vince Gill.
His last Grammy came in 2012, when he won best traditional pop vocal album for producing the Tony Bennett album Duets II.
And then, we were playing a lot with a great band called the Two Dollar Pistols, and I did a record of country duets where I was the girl singer on that EP.
Opera from any era is essentially a vocal art form: the singing of arias, duets, ensembles, and choruses.
But the choreography matches the music perfectly, with a series of interlocking duets and triplets for two men and two women.
Inspired by thoughts about slow growth, "Garden" explores how movement that Ms. Weare originally made for her own solos or duets evolved into material that new dancers in the company would perform.
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Paul McCartney teamed with him on three duets, two of which -- "The Girl Is Mine" and "Say Say Say" -- became top five hits.
The pair capitalized on their bad times by recording and performing hit duets that highlighted their domestic travails.
Ravel originally composed "Mother Goose" in 1910 as a set of duets, for one piano and four hands, for the children of friends.
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The first film, about a high school basketball star who falls in love with a girl and is torn between his on-court duties and his secret yearning to sing duets with her, was seen by 170 million people around the world.
Over the years she also appeared at his side at many social engagements, even performing singing duets with him.
Now elderly and pondering the meaning of his existence, he supervises the enactment of his memories through a series of lively vignettes based on well-known duets and arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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