Happy 95th birthday to the great Tony Bennett π
A great portrait by Herman Leonard, New York, 1950
"The thing about this guy is that heβs so positive β if I were as talented as him, Iβd be positive, too."
- Alec Baldwin
From Tony Bennett's 1992 album Perfectly Frank, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Tony sings the rarely heard verse!
With Ralph Sharon, piano, Paul Langosch, bass, & Joe LaBarbera, drums
The great portrait on the cover is by E. J. Camp
Listening to The Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Album, 1975
The cover photo is by Bill Bray.
A sketch of Bill Evans by Tony Bennett. Note that it's signed Benedetto; he was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto.
Happy birthday, Anthony! π
Tony Bennett's statue outside the Fairmont Hotel, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco. By the Bay Area sculptor Bruce Leslie Wolfe.
Photo: Eric Risberg, August 19, 2016
I Left My Heart In San Francisco. Again, Tony sings the verse! "...my city by the bay..."
My favourite Tony Bennett/Bill Evans song is from their 2nd album, Together Again, 1977
Michel Legrand's lovely tune, with Marilyn & Alan Bergman's amazing English lyrics.
Tony Bennett with Harold Arlen, September 17, 1963
Arlen once said, "Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful."
"Right as the Rain", with Yip Harburg's great lyrics
Happy birthday to the beautiful Tony Bennett! π
Coffee with Tony Bennett and Norah Jones βοΈ
Photo: Kelsey Bennett, 2011
Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash's "Speak Low":
Happy birthday to Tony Bennett π @itstonybennett
A great portrait by Eve Arnold, from 1950
"The more Tony goes on, the more he understands that what you leave out is important.β
- Scott Simon
"The Way You Look Tonight"
Tony Bennett has had some glamorous partners over the years: Judy Garland, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Norah Jones. But this is the peak: with Miss Piggy at the Macyβs Day Thanksgiving Parade
π· Eric Liebowitz, 2016
Tony Bennett by Josh Cheuse
"A benign, grandfatherly figure, he is revered as the epitome of cool by younger generations of performers."
- Stephen Holden
One more cup of coffee with Tony Bennett βοΈ
It's still morning (just)...
π· Don Hunstein, June 1959
"Smile" - John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons wrote the lyrics to Charlie Chaplin's lovely tune
More Don Hunstein photos of Tony Bennett, from 1957 & 1963. The two would have spent a lot of time together at Columbia recording studios.
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ππ―
π· Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. π§΅
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola π
π· Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur β a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
π· Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial ππ―
π· Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday π
π· Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
π· Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.