"If you're doing a Tony Bennett concert, you wouldn't use a lot of lasers, " Mr. Gurdon laughs.
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This fall, it was left to elder statesmen like Sonny Rollins and Tony Bennett to carry the torch for tradition.
Tony Bennett, from Harlow in Essex, had previously agreed not to publish allegations linking the girl's parents to her disappearance.
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His last Grammy came in 2012, when he won best traditional pop vocal album for producing the Tony Bennett album Duets II.
He said she had appeared focused when giving an "incredible performance" for a recent studio recording of a duet with Tony Bennett.
The one who caught Ms. Rittberg's eye resembled a young Tony Bennett.
Tony Bennett, the superintendent of public instruction in Indiana, arrived in 2009.
Among those paying tribute to the actress - who turns 71 tomorrow - were former president Bill Clinton, Liza Minnelli and singer Tony Bennett.
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He was known for bringing artists together for duets, producing efforts by Frank Sinatra and Bono, and Tony Bennett and Paul McCartney among others.
Some key albums include I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me, his tribute to Michel Legrand, Le Grand Freddy and Because of You, a tribute to Tony Bennett.
He was at ease with rock, jazz, swing and pop, working with Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, Elton John and Tony Bennett, Madonna and Lou Reed.
That means the Sunday "golden oldie" slot - previously taken by the likes of Rod Stewart, Tom Jones and Tony Bennett - will be vacant after organisers said they could not afford Bryan Ferry.
Even today, at 75, he has a number of projects brewing, including a miniseries on Armstrong, a film on Brazil's Carnival, a Tony Bennett-Stevie Wonder duets album and an entry in Las Vegas, Nevada's restaurant business.
The home was used primarily as a second residence for the Hope family and was the place where they entertained most often, inviting friends such as Tony Bennett and Glen Campbell to enjoy the views from the house.
The singer surprised an assembly full of students at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in the borough of Queens on Thursday, appearing with Tony Bennett, who opened the school in 2001 through his Exploring the Arts program.
The audience was also treated to a sneak preview of a recently discovered tape of Tony Bennett and Brubeck performing the standard "There Will Never Be Another You" at a 1962 White House-sponsored concert that will be released on CD this month.
But Ms. Sutton, a confessed devotee of Sinatra and Tony Bennett, is closer to that realm of quality saloon singing than she is to the Sarah Vaughans and Ella Fitzgeralds of this world, whose liberties with melody and rhythm seemed unforced, like a first language...
Before he became an actor, he worked during the 1960s at the Copacabana nightclub in New York, where he played host to the stars of the era including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Bobby Darin and met the sort of gangsters he would later portray.
Last week she started out at a party for Matilda Cuomo's new book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries.
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