Dead at 96, the golden-voiced singer was a champion of the Great American Songbook who learned from his mistakes: 'I did a lot of drugs and all that. And then I learned, from experience, that I wasn’t doing the right thing, and I stopped'
Tony Bennett and Aloe Blacc also on the bill for private Thursday night William Morris Endeavor party at North County nightspotHis 2017 Bayside Summer Nights concert at San Diego’s Embarcadero Marina Park South came a year after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
“Jerry and I just got along as people; we didn’t talk about music at all,” Bennett said in 1998. “He also liked to paint, and I paint. We just had a camaraderie going. He was a very nice guy.” It would take up too much space to include all of my interviews with Tony Bennett, but here is one of my favorites.BY GEORGE VARGA“I’m not a jazz singer,” declared Tony Bennett, who prefers to think of himself as an interpreter of “the great American songbook.”
“It was a challenge for me, more so than any other album I’ve done, because she was so honest,” Bennett said of Holiday, who died in 1958 at age 44. “Most singers sing to get hit records, and she didn’t. Her songs were autobiographical, whether she wrote them or not. That’s what made her so profound, just like Hank Williams or Edith Piaf.”
“I love to give a proper performance every night,” he said. “So by not being predictable and changing a phrase in a song, it’s completely vital. It’s the moment, and that excites the audience, that they’re hearing something new.”“You stay in the proper creative zone that way,” said Bennett, who turns 71 Aug. 3. “It wouldn’t be boring , it would be one step closer to hell, beyond purgatory. Purgatory would be more inviting! It would be unbearable to do the same thing every night.
“And he liked the way I painted. He was a very good abstract impressionist himself. I’d run into him in a hotel in Hollywood or somewhere, and he’d say: ‘Paint my hands,’ so I would.”His oils and watercolors now command up to $40,000 a piece. And his first book of paintings, “Tony Bennett: What My Heart Has Seen,” was recently published by Rizzoli International.
“I was very influenced by Bing. I liked the essence of Bing. He made us all a living; he showed us all how to communicate as popular singers by relaxing. He was blessed by the fact he liked to sing. It had nothing to do with fame or ambition. You could feel him being transformed as soon as he got into a tune, and he got carried away until it was finished.
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