BIRTHDAY: Jazz Musician of the Day: Tony Bennett

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Bennett’s birthday today! No one else in popular American music has recorded for so long and at such a high level of excellence as Tony Bennett. In the last ten years alone he has sold ten million records. The essence of his longevity and high artistic achievement was imbued in him in his loving childhood home in the Astoria section of Queens where he was born on August 3, 1926…