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...MARTINO Frank Lite. Known less for his singing [2] than for playing Johnny Fontaine, the Sinatra-inspired character in The Godfather...
Just try to find a new Sinatra. Scan the billboard album charts, and you'll find no one openly Sinatraesque. Check out The Jazz Singers (the Smithsonian Collection), a new five-CD, 104-song collection of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th century; the only singer featured who sounds overtly like Sinatra is Sinatra himself, represented by his 1956 Nelson Riddle-arranged rendition of Night...
...wish Frank Sinatra influenced more singers today," says Cassandra Wilson, who is widely considered to be the best jazz vocalist of the '90s. "He comes from a time when it was about the phrasing of a piece, the emotional content of a piece. He descended from Billie Holiday and singers who placed more emphasis on the lyrical content of a song. He was very disciplined, and I don't think modern singers are as disciplined anymore...
...course, there's always Harry Connick Jr., the smart-dressing, piano-playing New Orleans singer who is Sinatra's most obvious disciple. On his exhilaratingly retro 1989 sound track When Harry Met Sally, Connick displayed flashes of Sinatra's golden tones and a dash of his lush romanticism. You could almost imagine the bobby soxers. In the forthcoming movie Hope Floats, Connick even acts a bit like Sinatra, playing a regular Joe with a tough-guy exterior and a sad, needy heart...
...what about the rest of the contemporary music crowd? Can Sinatra's influence be seen? Yes, mostly in the swagger. Luther Vandross, 47, the R.-and-B. singer who teamed with Sinatra on his 1993 album Duets, says he was drawn early on to Sinatra's blunt Hoboken, N.J., charisma. "When I was growing up," says Vandross, "he represented success and respect." Another pop star who has learned from Sinatra is Bono, 38, lead singer of the Irish rock group U2. Presenting Sinatra with a special "Legend" Award at the Grammys in 1994, Bono pinpointed Frank's appeal...