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In Celebration of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s collaborative jazz album, Cheek To Cheek, they will join forces for an incredible tour in 2015. Bennett and Gaga first met in New York City in 2011 after the Robin Hood Foundation gala. They later recorded a rendition of “The Lady Is Tramp,” and began discussing their collaborative album. The album was inspired by Bennett and Gaga’s desire to introduce jazz songs to a younger generation, since they believed that the tracks had universal appeal.
Cheek To Cheek took over a year to complete and features jazz musicians of Bennett’s quartet including, Mike Renzi, Gray Sargent, Harold Jones, Marshall Wood, and pianist Tom Ranier. In addition, jazz trumpeter Brian Newman, a long-time friend and colleague of Lady Gaga appears on the album with his jazz quintet. Jazz soloists on selected tracks include tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter George Rabbai and flutist Paul Horn.
The first two single off of the album were “Anything Goes” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” They both reached number one on Billboards Jazz chart. The album as a whole reached number one on the Billboard 200 with over 130,000 copies sold its first week.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga at ACL Live
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Tickets on sale 12/12 at 10 AM
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
All Ages
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