Tony Bennett & Bill Evans : Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album

The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) brings together two legends of modern music. Featuring just vocal and piano, without any additional musicians, the two artists selected the songs and worked out the arrangements for what was to become the first of two albums together

Bennett and Evans first met in 1962, when both were performing (though not yet together) in a special jazz event on The White House lawn (during the Kennedy years). It was the jazz and theatre singer Annie Ross, who had known both men for many years by the early 70s, who supposedly came up with the idea that Bennett and Evans should do an album together.

In June 1975, they finally got together. Tony later related: I said to Bill, Listen, it will just be the two of us you dont bring your cronies and I wont bring mine! Bennett and Evans selected the tunes, worked out the arrangements semi-spontaneously, and picked the final takes to be used. The music