Lady Gaga Dances `Cheek to Cheek’ With Tony Bennett to Jazz Standards [VIDEO]

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are dancing "Cheek to Cheek" on a new album of classic jazz standards.

Gaga and Bennett announced that the "Cheek to Cheek" album will hit shelves on Sept. 23. As a teaser, the Lady and that tramp hit the microphone cheek to cheek for a duet on the Cole Porter song "Anything Goes" which they put out on iTunes.

Lady Gaga took to Twitter to promote the Tony Bennett collaboration, tweeting "No autotune. No tricks. Pure jazz."

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga first teamed up in 2011, when Gaga put her stamp on the songs "The Lady Is a Tramp" for Bennett's Duets II album.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's "Cheek to Cheek" will include such jazz standards including "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady,"  "Lush Life," Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life."

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, who have 22 Grammys between them, appeared on "The Today Show" to announce "Cheek to Cheek."  

Speaking on the Today Show, Bennett said "I love the way she sings. The whole world loves her."

"He's a legend. He's really changed my life with this record. I've been singing jazz since I was 13 years old and Tony was the first person who knew that," Lady Gaga added.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Lady Gaga remembered she first met Tony Bennett after she'd performed a a cover of Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky"at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit gala in New York City in 2011.

"He heard me sing that song, and he asked to meet me," she told Rolling Stone. "I said, 'Oh, my gosh, Tony Bennett's here.' And I was so nervous. I fixed my hair, and my mom was fixing her makeup. We went back to meet him, and he said, 'Do you want to do a jazz album together?' I said, 'Yes, of course I do.' And we were fast friends and friends ever since."

Speaking to Rolling Stone following the Gaga Bennett "The Lady Is a Tramp" duet in 2011, Bennett gushed "She's as good as Ella Fitzgerald,"

Bennett and Gaga started planning their duet album sometime around  September 2012. The hit the studios in the spring of 2013 even though Gaga was still recovering from a hip injury that sidelined a major tour.

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