An aging crooner jazz and a pop chanteuse in the downswing of their career trying together on a jazz standard album. Phew, things can go terribly eye. A few years ago they have already snacked together with "This lady is a tramp" put a funny character (the video of it is awesome!) Lady GaGa can sing quite well, Tony Bennett, it may just so. It saves the routine, she is supported by her youthful voice. There are terrible outliers. "Sophisticated Lady" is not listenable. Bennett's voice is missing because everything! In general, the slow songs are rather not so well done. Otherwise it goes quite well, only here, of course, nothing is being reinvented. The two remain exactly in the limits give this Jazz them minimal. There is not a improsivativen outliers, nothing drags a really.
At the end remains a question mark for me. If you have recorded the album because they wanted to have fun and wanted to make music together (as it sounds in many places), so is there succeeded. The joy comes over. If both have the idea of the old standards to bring a youthful audience closer - that can work. I really hope that sometimes fans to listen to this album, the songs of Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday. Why should you listen to the 852 version of "Cheek To Cheek", if there is long Ultimate versions (eg Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong)? And that goes for every single song in this collection. As a 50-year-old jazz fan but I've got a certain advantage, as I readily admit. ;)
