Tony Bennett - Bill Evans - The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album

"Bill Evans' recordings almost always received good to excellent sound, and the Analogue Productions reissues are no exception. While I don't own the original releases, the 45 rpm reissues clearly better, even after VTA adjustments, the later OJC reissues or the earlier 33 1/3 rpm Analogue Productions releases. The 45 rpm reissues are more musical and transparent; instruments have greater three-dimensionality and frequency extremes, especially lower octaves, exhibit greater resolution and impact. Get them before they're sold out." – Myles Astor, Positive Feedback Online, Issue 34,

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"…This is an album that provides musical and dramatic thrills every play as Bennett's vocal daring takes him to the edge…Evans proves to be an adept accompanist, dancing round, but never stepping the melodies and thus giving Bennett wide open spaces…a natural-sounding stunner harmonically and timberally…the Mo-Fi is very good…but this double 45 is even better, with less artifice, and a fuller, richer and more natural sound." Music = 9/11; Sound = 9/11 – Michael Fremer, www.musicangle.com

Bill Evans rarely accompanied singers. He did not consider it one of his accomplishments. An expert on accompanists, Tony Bennett's flawless ear told him that Evans' sensitivity, touch, and deep harmonic wisdom would make him a perfect collaborator. In such circumstances, with no orchestra for cover and no rhythm section for buoyancy, a singer's control, intonation and steadiness are in bold relief. None of Bennett's recordings discloses more clearly his mastery of those elements. Evans, whose singing piano lines were inevitably described as lyrical, illuminates Bennett's supreme interpretation of lyrics. His own solos sing beautifully.