[JPL] The Bennett-Basie Xmas recording, Question

Jon Burr jon at jbq.net
Wed Dec 10 17:30:59 EST 2008


Antonia is Tony's younger daughter and youngest of 4 children - I worked with him from 1980-85, playing bass...


>Thanks again to David Johnson for sharing the contact info at Columbia
>enabling jazz89KUVO to obtain a play copy of the recording. Like a boy on
>Christmas Day morning or a Latino boy on Three Kings Day opening his
>presents, I was pleasantly surprised to see Monty Alexander as the pianist
>for most of the tracks, unexpected and quite rewarding. There's another cut,
>Tony singing a duet with Antonia Bennett, is that Tony's daughter,
>granddaughter or other relative?
>
>The recording's sole dissapointment for me is there are no liners or
>commentaries, however there is a nice reproduction of what surely is a Tony
>Bennett winter in the country portrait.
>
>Arturo

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