Jazz
This is a wonderful CD on Jaz by Tony Bennet.  There are 22 songs on the CD, and every one is strong. His moods range from playful to exuberant to gritty dignity in the face of heartbreak, connecting one song to the next with uncanny grace, as if this collection were a single concert instead of a 13-year retrospective. Most of the songs are not well known or often heard, but even those that are familiar to any jazz aficionado, come across as truly his own. For example, he takes the Cole Porter classic "Just One of Those Things" and performs it with only light, frantic drumming backing him, highlighting the casualness with which he dismisses his love affair. Another classic, "Stella By Starlight" is propelled by his soaring vocal - never has any singer sung the phrase "great symphonic themes" with more power than Tony. At the opposite extreme, "While the Music Plays On" and is a full-throated song of the emotional agony of maintaining dignity in the face of a lost lover dancing with a new partner.