Tony Bennett & The Basie Band A perfect mix !!

Of course it is not an ordinary Christmas CD when making such high-caliber like Tony Bennett, the Basie big band plus guest musicians like Monty Alexander and Toots Thielemans for a recording.

One can not compare the American Christmas with the German Christmas, which has the potential buyers of such CD course always bear in mind halten.Überm pond, it is more the sparkling, Christmas sacharinschmelzende what wird.Hier celebrated with much pomp the more contemplative Christmas , which can be recognized already own the songs.

Tony Bennett is one of more than 50 years to the great singers of American popular music with a strong jazz feeling, in the spirit of Frank Sinatra and Mel Tormé.Er place for each piece the right tone, can swinging or melting savor each piece fully, without attending to quality lose.

His allies are so high level that it is beyond the scope, they all nennen.Da here is the Basie big band led by Bill Hughes, the pianist Monty Alexander, Tony Musikdirekor Lee Musiker (also piano), the arrangers Bill Holman and Torrie Zito, the harmonica soloist Toots Thielemans and drummer Harold Jones, the wonderful guitarist Gray Sargent, all top people in the States.

All interpreted so beautiful standards like "I'll be home for Christmas," "Silver Bells," the sweetest "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (with a beautiful solo by Toots Thielemans), "My Favorite Things", " Christmastime is here ", the indestructible" Winter Wonderland, "" Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas "," Santa Claus is coming to town "or" The Christmas Waltz ".

Who this kind like Christmas music, is here at the highest level well bedient.Von violently swinging up contemplative Seeming the whole spectrum is, sung and played by absolute world stars, without the schmaltzy abzugleiten.Aufnahmetechnisch the whole is worden.Der captured excellently only negative criticism is the extremely short time of the CD of about 37 Minuten.Hier I also deducted a star because I find that frech.Man would loose nor can accommodate 3-4 pieces, which also have been safe at the star-studded without much Proberei feasible wäre.Schade that you still have to find something in such quantities !!! But otherwise a beautiful CD !!