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Jazz singer and pianist Robin Phillips remembers the incomparable Tony Bennett at a dinner jazz event at Gonville Hotel, as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival 2024. Frank Sinatra called Tony ‘the best in the business’ and he was so much more than a singer of popular songs. He had a hugely powerful voice and a great range, but could also communicate with such a personal touch, singing so emotionally and intimately you could feel you were the only person in the room. 

As his bands reduced in size due to necessity in the middle of the 20th century, Tony honed his art in singing with a uniquely personal touch, recording many of the great jazz standards and peaking with one of the best jazz vocal recordings of all time, The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album.

In this programme Robin will perform in quartet line-up, as he shares his favourite Bennett songs, from the most famous, to the less well-known ones that Robin has a deep connection with. 

Dinner will be served at the same seats/tables customers enjoy the performance from, with the main course served before the start of the performance, and the dessert served in the interval.