I've always enjoyed Tony Bennett's voice when I've heard it, but until I bought this album, I had never owned any Bennett music.  This was a great intoduction.  The choices of standards here are excellent, and ensure that we get to hear Tony singing without any poor material to bring him down.  His backing band, the Ralph Sharon Trio, is wonderful.  The audience is ebullient and keeps the energy high all the way through.  And Tony is in great form despite his age - he hits all the high notes and his interpretation is dead on.  I'm also an Elvis Costello fan, so his duet with Tony on "They Can't Take That Away From Me" was a real kick.  All in all, Tony is about a zillion times more animated, entertaining, and talented than the rest of the dreck MTV puts out.  On the album, Tony says he'd love to come back, and MTV should take him up on that.