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The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett
Among America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpreter of the American songbook.
- Takes a candid, unvarnished look at the amazing life of one of America's most enduring musical icons
- Based on dozens of author interviews with Bennett's family members,?agents, musicians, composers and managers, and experts on the last fifty years of popular music
- Filled with stories involving leading figures and entertainers of the twentieth-century, including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fiorello LaGuardia, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, and more
Whether you've been a Tony Bennett fan for decades or are just discovering him, this book will deepen your understanding of this hugely gifted entertainer and his music.
- Sales Rank: #1738423 in Books
- Published on: 2011-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.47" h x 1.13" w x 6.54" l, 1.40 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
From the Inside Flap
In All the Things You Are, award-winning author David Evanier offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of one of the most beloved singers of all time. Among America's greatest entertainers, from Garland to Sinatra, Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. He has led an amazing life. At age ten, he stood beside Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at the dedication of New York City's Triboro Bridge and, leading the throng of people across it, sang "Marching Along Together." He fought in World War II and helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp. He was discovered by Pearl Bailey and Bob Hope. In the 1960s, he marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and several of his paintings are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. And, of course, he sings, too.
Evanier probes deeply into the life and career of a genuine living legend. Drawing upon interviews with scores of Tony's friends, family members, and fellow musicians, as well as experts on the last fifty years of music, he vividly captures the musical history of an era. He brings deep insight into a man who has stayed perennially young because of his devotion to his art and to humanity. Friends speak affectionately of how Tony would rebuke them when they said that Tony was a better singer than his idol, Frank Sinatra. One friend tells how the singer's brief unannounced appearances at small music clubs lifted the hearts of mourning New Yorkers after 9/11. Another describes Tony's repeated visits to listen to and sing with his former music teacher during the last year of the teacher's life.
Evanier recounts Tony's impoverished yet happy childhood in Depression-era Astoria, Queens, and re-creates the heady early years of his career, as he produced one great hit record after another. He examines Tony's bleakest years, during the 1970s, when the singer struggled with addiction, a difficult second marriage, and evaporating interest in the Great American Songbook he loved to sing. Evanier also reveals the pivotal role Tony's children played in helping him relaunch his career by becoming popular music's ambassador to new generations of listeners. Today he is a musical statesman, America's troubadour, style model, mentor, and the unmatched interpreter of the greatest American composers of popular music, from Gershwin to Berlin to Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter.
All the Things You Are is a story that includes some of the foremost personalities of the past sixty years: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Duke Ellington, Bob Hope, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Jimmy Durante, Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, and many more.
Complete with candid assessments of Tony Bennett's life and career by the likes of legendary radio personality Jonathan Schwartz and the Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout, All the Things You Are is a masterful, groundbreaking biography and must reading for anyone who has heard that voice and fallen in love with the artist behind it.
From the Back Cover
The first complete biography of singing legend Tony Bennett
"David Evanier's All the Things You Are is a work of profound empathy and musical understanding. Tony Bennett lives in these pages as a matchlessly joyous singer whose brilliance refracts from a deep and subtle soul."
—James Kaplan, author of Frank: The Voice
"Much as Tony Bennett's music is appreciated, so will be this insightful book about the man behind the music."
—Gay Talese
"Like the American songbook, Tony Bennett is indestructible. He has become the greatest champion of classic songs and thanks to his interpretation of them, they will go on and on. All the Things You Are is a stylishly written book that mirrors its subject. David Evanier has great knowledge and depth of understanding of Tony Bennett and his legacy. This is a significant work of art."
—Michael Feinstein
"The great thing about David Evanier's biography—beyond its reliable research, nuanced evaluations, and stylistic eloquence—is that by looking closer at a great artist than the artist might have wished, it uncovers a man even more worthy of our admiration than we knew: a valiant defender of civil rights as well as the classic American songbook and the singer's right to enhance it by his own light."
—Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Warning Shadows
About the Author
David Evanier is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of both nonfiction and fiction. He was formerly senior editor of the Paris Review, and his work has appeared in Best American Short Stories. He is a recipient of the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the McGinnis-Ritchie Short Fiction Award. Evanier has written for the New York Times (including "Paper Cuts," its music blog), the New York Times Magazine, the Village Voice, the New Republic, the Nation, and many other publications. He has received residence fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Wurlitzer Foundation, is a full-time member of the Writers Room where he wrote this book, and has taught at UCLA. His other books include Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
For my money, I'd still choose Bennett's autobiography "The Good Life" over this one...
By Agnes Andrea
I've read two books about Tony Bennett: "The Good Life" (his 1998
autobiography written with critic/journalist Will Friedwald); and "All
The Things You Are" (the 2011 biography by author David Evanier).
"The Good Life" is a warm, passionate life story brimming with
anecdotes only the man himself could tell (about his growing up in an
Italian-American neighborhood, his WWII experience, his acquaintance
and friendship with some of the greatest artists in the showbiz for
the last 60 years or so). You can feel in every page Bennett's
positive, enthusiastic attitude towards life, his uncompromising love
for good music and good songs. Still, being a very private person, and
not so keen on dishing the dirt about himself (or about others: you
won't catch him talking badly about anyone, not even those who were an
obstacle to his career) in his memoir Bennett has the tendency to pass
by very quickly his personal (marital) problems and his professional
troubles: the 1976-1985 decade, possibly his darkest moment, is
hastily dealt with in about ten pages.
You might expect David Evanier's book ("All The Things You Are") to
provide more insight precisely about those aspects overlooked by
Bennett. And it does, just not as much as you'd expect.
One of Evanier's main sources is Derek Boulton, Bennett's manager
between 1970 and 1974. So you get lots of detail about those years, a
brief strech actually. Evanier also covers, of course, the last 13 or
so years since Bennett's memoir was published; and you get interesting
infos about how Bennett and his pianist of a lifetime, Ralph Sharon,
parted ways in 2002.
There are all new interviews, but Evanier seems to draw consistently from
Bennett's memoir itself, essentially following that blueprint, and
from other archive interviews.
As stated by other reviewers, in Evanier's book there are a few
repetitions, inaccuracies and misspelling (see also the excellent
reader's review by Bismaquer on Amazon UK) which suggest the book
could have used a better editing/revision.
The recording of the Rodgers&Hart songbook took place in 1973, not
1974; likewise, the famous Alice Tully Hall concerts were in 1973, not
1974, and 2nd guitarist on those occasions was not Bucky Pizzarelli,
who by then had left the Barnes/Braff group, but Wayne Wright.
Orchestrator Jorge Calandrelli occasionally becomes "Calendrelli"; in
one point the song "Where do you go from love" becomes "Where do you
go for love"... giving it an altogether... well... "different"
meaning... And so on.
One thing that doesn't seem very professional to me is throughout the
book the author refers to Bennett's ex-wives (Patricia and Sandra)
using the nicknames given them by some of Bennett's closest associates
("Sandy One" and "Sandy Two"). That's okay, of course, if you're
quoting somebody's words; but it's rather odd to see a biographer
using nicknames directly himself, and out of quotation. By the way,
while the author writes at lenght about Bennett's ex-wives, neither
seems to have a say or to have been contacted for their version.
All considered, if Evanier proves anything, is that Bennett's memoir
was a fair and honest account of his own life; so if I was to choose
only one book about Bennett I'd pick his autobiography "The Good
Life": a satisfying, informative overview of Bennett's life, written
by the person who knows the matter best - the old man himself.
11 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
This is a GREAT book about Tony Bennett by David Evanier
By Nick Riggio
Nicholas J. Riggio says:
I have been a lifelong Tony Bennett fan and friend since 1950. I have read the book by David Evanier and found it to be fascinating, factual, and well written. I sent David many old newspaper clippings from the 1950's. They were reviews of Tony's nightclub performances. I marveled how David introduced them into the story. I found the descriptions of so many great Bennett albums refreshing and honest! It is true that Tony Bennett has recorded many great songs and albums that received little to no air time by DJs on the radio. David brings them back to life with great detail.
This is a book that is hard to put down once you start reading it. It just flows from page to page and is very informative.
All The Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett is a must read! I want to thank David Evanier for writing a great book about my favorite singer and a great man Mr. Tony Bennett!
As the late , great Jimmy Roselli said" Tony has one of the warmest voices ever" and now there is a book that celebrates Tony's wonderful career with great skill, pride and love.
Nick Riggio
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great Book - One of it's kind
By Michael J. Fiorito
All The Things You Are is without a doubt the best book ever written on Tony Bennett. I've waited a long time for a book like this to come into print.
There's the book Bennett co-wrote with Will Friedwald. The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett, but it doesn't really say anything - it mainly reminds us that Bennett is a really nice guy. We already knew that.
What immediately comes across in Evanier's book is his fascination and affection for Italian-American crooners. You can tell that Evanier not only writes about the subject of crooners, but is also a huge fan. It's clear that no one put Evanier up to the task of writing this book. He had to write it. His enthusiasm and his easy to read writing style makes All The Things You Are a delectable treat. I think I read it in two days. It was so enjoyable I almost wanted to eat it afterwards.
As in his other books Evanier gets to the heart of Bennett. We see how Bennett surrounded himself with great musicians and insisted on recording quality material. Evanier writes that Bennett's musical style was informed first under the directorship of the innovative jazz guitarist, Chuck Wayne and then later under the pianist Ralph Sharon. Moving away from the crooner pop songs that made him famous, Bennett's used his success to evolve into one of the all-time great jazz singers.
I was surprised to learn about his failed marriages, struggles with addiction, and his (what?) volcanic temper. But at least we now know that Bennett is human. I was also surprised to learn that he'd often lash out against Ralph Sharon after concerts, wrongly accusing him of ruining performances. Of course, many of Bennett's most famous recordings have been made great by Sharon's tasteful and concise piano phrasing and overall musical vision.
This book will make you want to listen to Bennett's oeuvre: his work with Bill Evans, Count Basie, and countless other jazz legends. Not to mention that he's still recording with relevant artists.
But don't believe me; pick up the book and read it if you love the crooners as I do.
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