The Year of Tony Bennett

I made my next album, Hometown, My Town, with the great orchestrator Ralph Burns. This and other albums I made with Ralph are a great example of the musical scene that was flourishing in New York in the late fifties and early sixties. This was the time when all the very best musicians were working in the city. Many of them—like Al Cohn, Urbie Green, and Zoot Sims—had started with Woody Herman and other big bands, and when they came off the road, they settled in New York. I’d see them in the recording studios, in the pit bands on Broadway, and jamming in the jazz clubs.

Tony Bennett