Tony's Still Flying High On the Good Life ; 40 Years On, Tony Bennett Can Still Make the Christmas Party Swing

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WHEN Tony Bennett made his first Christmas album, Snowfall, in 1968, he produced a record widely acknowledged as one of the classics of a much maligned genre.

Forty years on, the man that the New York Times still hails as the King Of Cool is aiming to repeat the feat with A Swingin' Christmas, his second set of seasonal standards.

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Tony's Still Flying High On the Good Life ; 40 Years On, Tony Bennett Can Still Make the Christmas Party Swing

But Bennett, 82, is also striving for something more. The last survivor of a generation of jazz-influenced singers who emerged in the wake of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, he has spent a lifetime delivering the tunes of the big band era -- and he has some unfinished business.

'I'd really like to make jazz popular with the public again,' he says, his eyes twinkling as he r...

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