Watch Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett duet

The wait is almost over. "Cheek to Cheek," the jazz vocal duets album by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, will be released Sept. 23. It will be followed by a PBS-TV special, "Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE!," which was filmed in New York Monday night and is scheduled to air Oct. 24 on most PBS stations.

Here's a preview of "Anything Goes," which pairs Gaga, 28, with Bennett, who turns 88 next week and performs a solo concert here Oct. 4 at Pechanga Resort & Casino.

In a Tuesday tweet, Gaga boasted that the album is "pure jazz" and free of Auto-Tune (the device many vocally challenged singers use in an attempt to stay on pitch).

Commenting on "Cheek to Cheek" in a press release issued Tuesday, Gaga said: " 'Cheek To Cheek' came out of a very organic friendship and relationship that Tony and I have built over the years and it truly was a collaborative effort. It was important to Tony that this was a jazz record. I’ve been singing jazz since I was a child and really wanted to show the authentic side of the genre. We made an album of jazz classics, but it has a modern twist.”

Added Bennett: "I have been singing the Great American Songbook my entire career and all along forging a bridge between pop and jazz music. Creating this album with Lady Gaga has been a beautiful experience as she is a fantastic singer and I am hoping that all her fans will embrace this music and swing along with it."

A year in the making, "Cheek to Cheek" includes such classics as "It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)," Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life,” and the album's title track, "Cheek To Cheek," which Bennett first recorded in 1959. The album features Bennett's quartet, a quintet led by trumpeter Brian Newman (who is a longtime friend of Gaga's), an as yet undisclosed big band and sax great Joe Lovano.

Bennett and Gaga first met in 2011 at a benefit concert. They subsequently teams up for a duet of "The Lady is a Tramp," which appeared on Bennett's Grammy Award-winning "Duets II" album, which also featured Amy Winehouse. Gaga was a surprise guest when Bennett performed earlier this month at the Montreal Jazz Festival.

"I’m a student of Tony," Gaga said in the PBS TV "Great Performances" special that followed the release of

Duets II." "As a young artist, I’m so nervous about sounding good (singing) next to Tony. I have to remember that I have to mean (each word I sing), because he means it, every time."

It remains to be seen if "Cheek to Cheek" will include any new songs by Gaga, as Bennett hinted it might in a 2013 U-T San Diego interview.

"Lady Gaga told me she has couple of (new) song she’s written and would like me to look over," Bennett said at the time. "She knows my taste and she’s being really careful about wring some good songs. She’s a wonderful artist, and a phenomenon, who communicates so well with young people."

To gear up for the album's release and create some additional buzz, Gaga's Twitter page now features a photo of her and Bennett, replete with Gaga in an enormous dark wig that would make Cher or Diana Ross turn green with envy.

Gaga's latest tweet reads: "ANYTHING GOES video of @itstonybennett and me recording LIVE with the band. No autotune. No tricks. Pure Jazz."