Tony Bennett, Jazzy Crooner of the American Songbook, Is Dead at 96

Tony Bennett followed in the musical path of the greatest American pop singers of the 20th century, and carried the torch for them into the 21st.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around

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