Last year, Tony Bennett recorded the song The Lady is a Tramp with Lady Gaga for his album Duets II.
Tony Bennett. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
The two hit if off famously both musically and personally and that friendship is about to spawn a brand new project.
Bennett told Rolling Stone that he and Lady Gaga would be recording a full album of jazz music and it was all Gaga’s idea:
Of all things, she called me from New Zealand and said, ‘I want to do a jazz album with you and I said, ‘You got it!’ So that’s one of the things we’re gonna do.
We’re gonna do a jazz album with Marion Evans, a big swing band, and I’m looking forward to it because a lot of people don’t know it, but she’s a phenomenal jazz singer. I can’t mention the composer because I don’t want anybody to do it before we do it, but there’s a great composer that’s very underrated, very famous, but not as famous as Gershwin or Porter. But he did as many hit songs as anybody, and so we’re gonna do a big swinging album.
He went on to say that he would like to record as soon as possible but that might not happen for a bit as Bennett is about to release his album Viva Duets and Gaga is still out on her Born This Way tour.
