A great singer passes, and we fall back into their work to honor the loss. Not long after hearing of Tony Bennett’s death, phillipstribune revisited the 1975 album Bennett recorded with the peerless jazz pianist Bill Evans.
Tony Bennett acknowledges the crowd as he performs at Ravinia in Highland Park on August 4, 2017.Not long after hearing of, I revisited the 1975 album Bennett recorded with the peerless jazz pianist Bill Evans. I was driving on the Kennedy Expressway, going about 7 miles per hour. Minus the freeway construction, this is how millions of us first encounter, and then return to, our favorite singers and musicians who last and last. At home, doing things, not doing things.
“Total class. Gracious gentleman. What you saw onstage is what you saw backstage,” Ravinia senior artistic producer Erik Soderstrom said Friday. “A show stopper who sings the audience out of its chairs and has to beg his way off the floor after a crowded hour of high voltage vocalizing.” That’s how William Leonard reviewed Bennett in the Tribune in 1957. By then the singer had scored a few hits, earlier in the ’50s, with “Because of You” and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Rags to Riches.
Bennett toured all the way into his 90s. He and his family went public with his Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis in 2021. Music, said his third wife, Susan Benedetto, kept him as present in his life as humanly possible.Cookie Gonzalez, right, and Yvonne Director with a life-sized image of singer Tony Bennett at Ravinia in Highland Park on Aug. 4, 2017.
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