Songbook Sundays: The Tony Bennett Centennial
About This Event
Songbook Sundays presents a program honoring Tony Bennett’s centennial at Dizzy’s Club, approaching his repertoire through the lens of the American songbook. The project’s curated survey, which recently focused on Cole Porter, privileges lyric and form and echoes the unforced phrasing and steady time that marked Bennett’s singing, treating standards as living craft rather than nostalgia.
About the Artists
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer whose recordings helped define the vocal-jazz and adult-standards tradition. Over a long career he earned multiple Grammy Awards and was later recognized as an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree.
Songbook Sundays
Songbook Sundays is a jazz artist heard at Dizzy’s Club in New York City, presenting programs built around the American songbook. Recent sets have centered on Cole Porter, drawing from his Broadway and Hollywood writing and its afterlife as jazz repertoire.