Unlike the rock stars who turn to the standards as part of a lazy retirement plan, Bennett has always wanted to continue learning from them. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to perform together ‘one last time’ in special NYC shows, former shares excitement House of Gucci Review: Hell hath no fury like a fashionably ferocious Lady Gaga. Bennett brings the husky suede of his soft shoes to the party: always considered, dexterous and audibly decent. Although her pop career was built on staccato syllables (mah-mah-mah-mah Poh-kah face!), she can slide confidently up and down a jazz scale like a woman with a trombone for a throat. She brings sequins and drama and brassy big notes. Bennett’s got these songs under his skin, and pop’s Mother Monster does a brilliant job of helping him deliver them as a final gift to the world.įans of the pair’s first duets album, Cheek to Cheek (2011), will already know that Gaga and Bennett have a chemistry that crackles against the odds. To hear the subtle, supple way he finds his way through the 12 Cole Porter standards that appear on Love For Sale (his second duets album with Lady Gaga), you’d never guess that he was diagnosed with dementia five years ago and can no longer maintain anything like a normal conversation. Now he’s 95, Bennett is so in tune with the Great American Songbook that I wouldn't be surprised if Berlin rhymes and Gershwin lines showed up on his X-rays. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga perform 60 minutes of jazz. Tony Bennett once said that “singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you”. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live: Directed by David Horn.