Cloud 7

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{{Infobox album

| name = Cloud 7

| type = studio

| artist = Tony Bennett

| cover = TonyBennettCloud7Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1955|2|25}}[https://tonybennett.com/media.php?ty=album&tb=7 Tony Bennett.com]

| recorded = August 6 & December 22, 1954

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = {{Duration|m=33|s=5}}

| label = Columbia

| producer = Mitch Miller

| prev_title = Because of You

| prev_year = 1952

| next_title = Alone at Last with Tony Bennett

| next_year = 1955

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r24537}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |page=148 |isbn=9781846098567 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse_v3u2/page/148/mode/2up |accessdate=30 November 2024}}

}}

Cloud 7 is the second studio album by Tony Bennett, released in 1955.

The album featured material from the Great American Songbook and presented Bennett in a way different from his hit parade material of the early nineteen-fifties using a combo of jazz musicians. The album was arranged by the featured guitarist, Chuck Wayne, and trumpeter Charles Panely and was recorded between August and December 1954.

On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.{{cite web |title=The Complete Collection - Tony Bennett |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-collection-mw0002217006 |access-date=8 October 2024 |work=allmusic.com |publisher=}}

Track listing

Personnel

=Tracks 1 and 4=

=Other tracks=

  • Caesar DiMauro – tenor saxophone
  • Harvey Leonard – piano
  • Ed Shaughnessy – drums

=CD additional personnel=

  • Danny Bennett – executive producer
  • Steven Berkowitz – executive producer, A & R
  • Stacey Boyle – tape research
  • Lisa Buckler – project director
  • Didier C. Deutsch – reissue producer
  • Patti Matheny – artist coordination
  • Darcy Proper – reissue producer, mastering
  • Darren Salmieri – artist coordination
  • Jonathan Schwartz – liner notes

References