Are any of Tony Bennett's contemporaries alive?

So young.

He's the last of the hard-school NYC saloon singers.

I love his singing with Garland.

Is Tony Polar still around? Still in the...uh....rest home?

Actually r1 I had an 80 something store owner call me young after asking me how old I am.

I'm 57.

Here's a list for you, OP, though some may no longer qualify since it hasn't been updated for over a year...and it lists quite a few more than 10, so the title is a misnomer.

Amazing singer!

I've heard that Madonna still performs occasionally.

Ah, to the good ole days of show business!

Annie Ross is still around, and Jon Hendricks was until last October.

I guess Jack Jones is a little later, but he's still performing.

Doris Day, of course, but she doesn't perform.

Steve Lawrence would be considered a contemporary.

Jeez, he even outlived Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Nancy Wilson is 81. Although she retired from performing in 2011.

Johnny Mathis is still going strong at 82.

Peter Lemongello is still alive. I'm old, bored and barely alive so you'll have to google this 1970s wunderkind on your own.

He smokes weed everyday and has for most of his life.

Barbra is older than Tony and a semi invalid but she still attempts to sing if there's a lot of cash involved.

r11

You don't know what I do, so how about a good dose of shut the fuck up.

Charles Aznavour, 94

Who can ever forget Tony's incredible dramatic performance in *The Oscar", starring DL fave Stephen Boyd?

Al Martino died in 2009. Vic Damone died in 2018, but retired in 2001. Johnny Mathis is just a baby.

Harry Belafonte

And 60 years ago...

Marilyn Maye is from Tony Bennett's generation, and is still actively performing. (She's appearing in Provincetown this summer.) She's 90.

Dame Shirley Bassey is 81 and semi-retired.

Shirley Jones? Although she was not really the same kind of performer.

After all this hemming and hawing, yes, Tony is the last of his species.

The last of his species if you choose to ignore Johnny Mathis, yes. OP merely asked whether any of his contemporaries are still alive.

Sonny Rollins is still alive.

Rip Taylor

I admire Bennett's career, but have always found him to be a very bland singer.

R6, Tony Bennett is not a "jazz musician." Neither were his now dead contemporaries like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Vic Damone, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin or Sammy Davis. They were all popular vocalists - singers of popular songs of their day.

Harry Belafonte is a true contemporary of Bennett's, almost exactly the same age. Jack Jones, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Bassey, Streisand, Viki Carr, Nancy Wilson - all in the ten years later group.

Thanks for sharing, R33--you might want to notify the person who put the list together in the link since Bennett was included on that list. I'm also the person who added Belafonte at R23 and R24.

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