On the red carpet, she says it’s “just so I can always remember this time together.”Įarlier on the red carpet, Gaga’s collaborator Lady Starlight told Rolling Stone that, even though Gaga had said in an Instagram caption that she had been singing jazz since age 13, she couldn’t believe Gaga could sing jazz the way she does. Gaga has been so taken with the experience of making Cheek to Cheek that, in June, she got a tattoo of a sketch Bennett had made of Miles Davis’ trumpet on her inside right bicep. “It’s pretty special,” he says with a smile. “He really likes when I sing ‘Lush Life,'” she says, referring to the Billy Strayhorn–penned standard that has been recorded by everyone from Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan to Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. “He wanted me to sing a lot of different songs,” Gaga rejoins. Wait ’til you find out when she sings those songs.” “No other country has ever given the rest of the world so many magnificent songs, and they’re gonna live forever. “It’s all the great songs of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, all the greatest composers,” Bennett says. “It’s all songs from the great American songbook,” she says. Now it’s finally happening, mostly how they had been saying it would.Īlthough Bennett had reportedly told a French website that Gaga had written new material for the album, specifically a song called “Paradise,” Gaga told Rolling Stone on the red carpet that the record would consist solely of standards, at least at this point. The pair began discussing making a duets record together as early as September 2012, and began recording in the spring of 2013 despite Gaga’s hip injury. “She’s as good as Ella Fitzgerald,” he said to Rolling Stone at the time (around which he also sketched her nude and joked about it on Gaga’s Thanksgiving special). Previously, Gaga and Bennett recorded “The Lady Is a Tramp” for the crooner’s 2011 Duets II album. The concert, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!, will air on PBS Great Performances this fall, and it preceded the announcement of Cheek to Cheek, the singers’ album of classic jazz standards that is also coming out in autumn.
Last night, Gaga and Bennett walked side-by-side down a red carpet, with the former wearing a décolleté black dress and the latter dressed in a tux and ear-to-ear smile, in New York City prior to singing together at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. We went back to meet him, and he said, ‘Do you want to do a jazz album together?’ I said, ‘Yes, of course I do.’ And we were fast friends and friends ever since.” I fixed my hair, and my mom was fixing her makeup. “I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, Tony Bennett’s here.’ And I was so nervous. “He heard me sing that song, and he asked to meet me,” she says now.
She had just performed a set of pop hits and a cover of Nat King Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky” – “a jazz song,” she points out – at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit gala in New York City in 2011, when she got word he wanted to see her after the show. When Lady Gaga recalls her first meeting with golden-throated crooner Tony Bennett, she still sounds impressed.
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