While Bennett and Krall have recorded together before, on Bennett's albums Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings The Blues (2001) and Duets: An American Classic (2006), Love Is Here To Stay marks their first album-length collaboration. And what better way to do so than by celebrating their shared love of the inimitable Gershwins, with the album's release coinciding with the 120th anniversary of George Gershwin's birth. They present 10 heart-warming, simpatico duets including ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’, ‘I Got Rhythm’ and ‘Somebody Loves Me’, with each vocalist taking one solo turn, Krall on ‘But Not For Me’, Bennett (who celebrated his 92nd birthday in August) on ‘Who Cares?’, which brings the album to a swinging close. One of the great pleasures of this recording is the immaculate playing of the Bill Charlap trio, featuring pianist Charlap, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington. Maestros all, they offer a masterclass in understatement – the way Charlap weaves in a quote from ‘Clap Yo' Hands’ in his solo on album opener ‘S'Wonderful’ is beautifully done. The album has already bagged a Guinness World Records title for Bennett, for the longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist – namely ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, appearing here as a duet with Krall and a song which he first waxed way back in 1949 under his then stage name Joe Bari.