This week In One-Off Collaborations 06/52

Angélique Kidjo & Buddy Guy, Paul Simon & Chris Thile, Post Malone & Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sharon Stone & Aerosmith, Slash & Carole King, Marianne Faithfull & Bill Frisell, Candy Dulfer & Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dionne Warwick & Chuck Jackson, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Porter & Laura Mvula, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh & Diana Krall, Lou Rawls & Stanley Turrentine

Singing (and Playing) With Keith Richards

The Faces, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry , Sheryl Crow , Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, James Cotton, Etta James, Robert Cray, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson , Johnny Depp, Eric Clapton

Singing With Ray Charles

Buck Owens, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones , Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michael Hutchence, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson

That’s so sweet of confirmed artist Diana Krall to help a young and upcoming crooner named Tony Bennett.

"Love Is Here to Stay" by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall is a collaboration album of Gershwin songs recorded with the Bill Charlap Trio and released on September 14, 2018 by Verve.

(Source Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Love Is Here To Stay | Diana Krall Official Site)

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Time



...just nabbed a Guinness World Records title this week for “longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist.”

Variety



...Krall and Bennett evidently figured that it might not make sense to pair up for songs about being alone. The Times

Tony Bennett’s admirers are by now resigned to him making duet albums, even if he works best solo

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Love Is Here To Stay

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Released in 2005,

For ‘In the Blue Light,’ Paul Simon hires Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis and others to revisit several old and more obscure pieces of his catalogue. De(blue)lightful!

Paul Simon's 'In the Blue Light' is his fourteenth solo studio album recorded with among others Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis, Bryce Dessner from The National and the yMusic sextet and released on September 7, 2018 by Legacy Recordings.

(Source Paul Simon - In the Blue Light | The Paul Simon Official Site)

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Rolling Stone



But leave it to Simon—who made Nile Rodgers play 90-something guitar takes for one session—to redo songs in ways that don’t exactly overhaul the originals.

The Independent



...they are contemplative and melancholic one moment, silly and absurdist the next The Times

is a strange choice for a songwriter of his stature: a reworking of songs he felt were overlooked or not quite right first time

Paul Simon - In the Blue Light

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Singing With Elvis Costello

Willie Nelson, Diana Krall, Emmylou Harris, Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, Elmo, Paul McCartney, Jenny Lewis, Anne Sofie Von Otter, George Jones, Sheryl Crow, Lou Reed, The Police