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Normally, i write longer guides on technical topics, so this is a change of pace and a personal experiment. In a first person narrative, tony reflects back over his 60 year career while looking ahead within the context of his latest recording project. Dec 08, 2014 the zen of bennett is a seductive and soulful view into the mind of singer tony bennett as well as an intimate portrait of the artists creative process as he turns 85 years old. I stumbled across joanna youngs a simple guide to compiling a free ebook and decided to give it a shot. Frankly, i had modest expectations for this documentary conceived by tony bennetts son danny, a music producer who reinvented his father as a more benevolent frank sinatra, smoothly. Along with alex cross, of his phenomenal hit novel by the same title and have been adapted into a movie and several other novels, michael bennett exemplifies the real hero in new york city. Michael dibdin authored 11 aurelio zen novels that were published between the years of 1988 and 2007 the year of his passing. The zen of bennett the zen of bennett captures octogenarian crooner tony in the studio recording last years duets ii with a lineup of mostly much younger music stars.
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