With “Love Is Here To Stay”, released by Verve Records / Columbia Records, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall celebrate their mutual love for the music of George and Ira Gershwin. Friends for more than twenty years, the two artists shot together in 2000 before recording duets on two albums of the singer (“Duets” and “Playin ‘With My Friends”).
Coming out on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of George Gershwin’s birth, “Love Is Here To Stay” is still their first album in common. While celebrating his 92nd birthday this year, Tony Bennett reached the top of the Billboard Top 200 at age 85 and then at age 88, an unprecedented performance in the history of American popular music. Diana Krall is the only jazz artist to have seen eight of her albums rise from their first place in the ranking of the best selling jazz in the United States.
Accompanied in the most beautiful ways by the Bill Charlap Trio, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall sign with “Love Is Here To Stay” an album with the delicate beauty, poignant declaration of love addressed to the work of Gershwin. The two artists deliver a real lesson in singing, taking over some of the most famous standards of American popular music with a mixture of authority and ease that only a perfect mastery of their art can obtain.
TRACKLISTING
- ‘s Wonderful
- My One and Only
- Not For Me Goal – Diana Krall Solo *
- Nice Work if You Can Get It
- Love is Here to Stay
- I Got Rhythm
- Somebody Loves Me
- Do it Again
- I’ve Got a Crush on You
- Fascinating Rhythm
- They Can not Take That Away From Me
- Who Cares? – Tony Bennett Solo
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