Billy Strayhorn - Lush Life flac album

Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn is an album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson. Composed of songs written by Billy Strayhorn, the album was a critical and commercial success, leading to the first of three Grammy Awards Henderson would receive while under contract with Verve Records. The album had sold nearly 90,000 copies at the time of Henderson's death in 2001 and has been re-released by Verve, Polygram, and in hybrid SACD format by Universal.

Henderson performs ten of Billy Strayhorn's most enduring compositions in a variety of settings ranging from a full quintet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and duets with pianist Stephen Scott, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson to an unaccompanied solo exploration of "Lush Life. feat: Gregory Hutchinson, Christian McBride.

Lush Life - Sarah Vaughan. 2. Rain Check - Art Farmer. 3. Chelsea Bridge - Ben Webster. Strayhorn's urbane, elegant melodies tuck into be-bop (Gillespie's scatting "UMMG," Joe Henderson's "Isfahan" from 1990's all-Strayhorn album) lush balladry (Eckstine's rococco croon on "Satin Doll," Sarah Vaughn's swooping rendition of the nihilistic title cut), contemplative soloing (Peterson's "After All," a gentle Stan Getz on 1986's live "Blood Count"), exotic swing (Louis Bellson's.

Billy Strayhorn - Lush Life. Artist: Billy Strayhorn. Album: Masters of Jazz - Billy Strayhorn, 2001. IN PERSON! The one and only BILLY STRAYHORN himself sings and plays his own masterpiece "Lush Life" - live performance 1964. life is lonely again and only last year everything seemed so assured now life is awful again and the thoughtful of heart could only be a bore. a week in paris will ease the bite of it all i care is to smile in spite of it i'll forget you i will and yet you are still burning inside my brain. com/b/billy+strayhorn/.

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Lush Life" was more of an on-going project for Strayhorn than a song intended for publication. He only played the song for friends or at parties until the Carnegie Hall performance. Ellington played seven shows at the iconic theatre that year and Strayhorn and Davis unveiled "Lush Life" in the final show. Soon after that, vocalists clamored to record it, although not all were able to do it. Over 500 covers of "Lush Life" exist, but Frank Sinatra quit trying after a few attempts to interpret the complexities of the verses in 1958. He said he would give it another.

Tracklist: 1. Fantastic Rhythm, 2. Rain Check, 3. Lush Life, 4. Satin Doll, 5. Something To Live For, 6. Johnny Come Lately, 7. Day Dream, 8. Tonk, 9. Chelsea Bridge, 10. My Little Brown Book, 11. Valse, 12. My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count), 13. The Flowers Die Of Love, 14. Lotus Blossom, 15. So This Is Love. 5. Something To Live For.