Songbook Sundays: The Tony Bennett Centennial

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 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.