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Tony Bennett confirms new jazz album with Lady Gaga

Tony Bennett has confirmed that he will be teaming up with Lady Gaga to record a full-length jazz album.

The legendary crooner, who collaborated with the ‘Bad Romance’ star on his 2011 ‘Duets II’ LP, told Rolling Stone that he wants to get started on the record as soon as he can:

"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."

The 86-year-old, who releases new album, ‘Viva Duets,’ on October 23rd, also added that the pair may perform live together in the future too:

"Let's see what happens. She's a good friend and I respect that she's so creative, that every day she changes, she has so many ideas and carries them out. She just never stops with it. I call her the musical Picasso. Her energy is just phenomenal."

 

 

 

Watch the video for Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett's 'The Lady Is A Tramp' below: