![]() “Being with Tony in Vegas felt like home, if that makes sense,” Newman said during a phone chat from his Brooklyn home on Friday morning. ![]() Trumpet great Brian Newman, Gaga’s close friend and collaborator since the late-2000s, was bandleader that night. Gaga and Bennett first appeared together in Vegas at Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan on New Year’s Eve weekend 2014, during their “Cheek To Cheek” tour. The two then sang “Cheek to Cheek” the title of their 2014 album and subsequent world tour, and “The Lady is a Tramp.” The announcement of Bennett’s name was nearly inaudible for the crowd’s response. ![]() “We have a guest tonight, a living legend!” Gaga shouted in the Sunday performance of her “Jazz + Piano” show. Tony Bennett’s Las Vegas career spanned El Rancho Vegas in the early 1950s, through the Copa Room at the Sands and the Rat Pack era, landing at performances with Lady Gaga at Park MGM.īennett, who died Friday at age 96, last appeared in Las Vegas with Gaga at then-Park Theater, now Dolby Live, in June 2019. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP, File) FILE - Tony Bennett, left, and Lady Gaga perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, on Apin New Orleans.
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