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"       Back in 2009, I saw Lady Gaga perform stripped-down, just her voice and a piano, at a Marc Jacobs after-party during fashion week, and since then I&amp;#039;ve never boxed her in with other Top 40 performers. As my mom puts it, &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t fake the old stuff,&amp;quot; and it&amp;#039;s with that sentiment in mind that I sipped a dirty martini and took in the jazz stylings of Gaga yesterday evening. To coincide with the announcement of their long-awaited jazz album, Cheek to Cheek (out September 23), Gaga and frequent collaborator Tony Bennett gave a performance at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center for their PBS special, &amp;quot;Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek Live!, which will air in October. While, painfully, I can&amp;#039;t divulge what I saw, I can say that their just-released single, a take on Cole Porter&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Anything Goes,&amp;quot; speaks for itself. &amp;quot;There might be 60 years between me and Tony, but there&amp;#039;s no distance between us when we sing jazz,&amp;quot; explained Gaga. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really of another time, and I hope with this music we can bring back that sentiment of love, kindness, and joy that I&amp;#039;m getting to experience working with him every day. I just want to spread that around the world.&amp;quot; Their album will be a mix of jazz standards, both duets and solos, with classics like Duke Ellington&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;It Don&amp;#039;t Mean a Thing (If It Ain&amp;#039;t Got That Swing),&amp;quot; and Ella Fitzgerald&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.&amp;quot; Bennett himself will tell you, Gaga is at home in the world of jazz. So much so, in fact, that she says jazz comes easier than pop. &amp;quot;You know, it&amp;#039;s funny, but jazz comes a little more comfortable for me than pop music, than R&amp;amp;amp;B music,&amp;quot; Gaga said in an interview. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve sung jazz since I was 13 years old, which is kind of like my little secret that Tony found out. So this is almost easier for me than anything else.&amp;quot; Now that the cat&amp;#039;s out of the bag, enjoy.        "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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