"I’m a student of Tony," Gaga said in the PBS TV "Great Performances" special that followed the release ofĭuets II." "As a young artist, I’m so nervous about sounding good (singing) next to Tony. Gaga was a surprise guest when Bennett performed earlier this month at the Montreal Jazz Festival. They subsequently teams up for a duet of "The Lady is a Tramp," which appeared on Bennett's Grammy Award-winning "Duets II" album, which also featured Amy Winehouse. The album features Bennett's quartet, a quintet led by trumpeter Brian Newman (who is a longtime friend of Gaga's), an as yet undisclosed big band and sax great Joe Lovano.īennett and Gaga first met in 2011 at a benefit concert. Creating this album with Lady Gaga has been a beautiful experience as she is a fantastic singer and I am hoping that all her fans will embrace this music and swing along with it."Ī year in the making, "Cheek to Cheek" includes such classics as "It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)," Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life,” and the album's title track, "Cheek To Cheek," which Bennett first recorded in 1959. We made an album of jazz classics, but it has a modern twist.”Īdded Bennett: "I have been singing the Great American Songbook my entire career and all along forging a bridge between pop and jazz music. I’ve been singing jazz since I was a child and really wanted to show the authentic side of the genre. It was important to Tony that this was a jazz record. In a Tuesday tweet, Gaga boasted that the album is "pure jazz" and free of Auto-Tune (the device many vocally challenged singers use in an attempt to stay on pitch).Ĭommenting on "Cheek to Cheek" in a press release issued Tuesday, Gaga said: " 'Cheek To Cheek' came out of a very organic friendship and relationship that Tony and I have built over the years and it truly was a collaborative effort. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, "Anything Goes"
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