The artistic design for the album packaging as well as for the first official image released from Cheek To Cheek, which is featured on the "Anything Goes" cover art. Photographer Steven Klein contributed the photographs and spearheaded On The Today Show on July 29, 2014, the same day the lead single was released, Gaga and Tony announced that the final release date for the album is set for September 23, 2014. USA Today's "2014 Album Roster" reported that the album had been pushed back to Fall of 2014. However, on December 12, in an interview with CNN, Bennett revealed that the album's release was delayed and the final release date was confirmed as March 18, 2014. With a big swingin' band and great, great, jazz artists playing." A month later, it was announced it would come out New Year's Day (January 1), 2014. In September 2013, Bennett announced in an interview the album will come out in January 2014 and was quoted saying, " We recorded all great standards, quality songs George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, songs like that.
They also recruited jazz soloists Joe Lovano and Paul Horn on selected tracks. The duo recruited for their musicians members of Bennett's quartet, Mike Renzi, Gray Sargent, Harold Jones, Marshall Wood and Tom Lanier along with The Brian Newman Quartet, Alex Smith (piano), Brian Newman (trumpet), Paul Francis (drums), Scott Ritchie (bass) and Steven Kortyka (tenor sax).
According to the press release, the album took over a year to complete. The recording session began in late June of 2013 in New York City. Following the interview, Gaga clarified that the album would consist solely of standards.Īsked about the album in March of 2013, Bennett revealed to Rolling Stone that they already started working on it on papers and would continue to do so until June. ĭuring an interview in late June, Bennett revealed the first song title, " Paradise" stating it is one of the original songs written by Gaga to be included on the album, he also stated that while the album will include collaborative covers between the two, it will also feature solo covers as well as some newly written material. At that point, he did not know how many songs were expected to be on the album, but there would be about four or five different sized orchestras that would be utilized. In an interview with, discussed his involvement in " The Lady is a Tramp" and the upcoming project. But he did as many hit songs as anybody, and so we're gonna do a big swinging album." 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. "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. Bennett says that Lady Gaga's father called on her behalf while she was on tour in New Zealand to request doing a collaborative jazz album, which Bennett happily accepted following their work together on " The Lady is a Tramp" in 2011. 2-3 day delivery - the cost in higher but you get quicker.Tony Bennett originally announced the album in an interview with Rolling Stone in September of 2012. 10-20 day delivery - the cost is really low, but takes a few days.ī. Global-e offer 2 services for International orders:Ī. Then they take charge of organizing the delivery for us. They work with all the major payment providers across the Globe and you can pay in your local currency. Once we have dispatched your order, we will send you a confirmation email to let you know that your order has been dispatched.įor all overseas deliveries we work with our partner Global-e. Sorry but delivery costs have gone up alot over Covid and Brexit. After this, we will be sending all parcels via couriers.įor For all International deliveries have been advised we can despatch until 14th December.Īll UK orders are dispatched on a standard First Class Royal Mail delivery, unless you want to pay for a Tracked Service which does cost more. We have been advised by Royal Mail we can despatch until 10th December for pre-Xmas delivery.
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