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    Lush Life (jazz song)

    "Lush Life" is a jazz standard that was written by Billy Strayhorn


    from 1933 to 1936. It was performed publicly for the first time by
    "Lush Life"
    Strayhorn and vocalist Kay Davis with the Duke Ellington Orchestra Song
    at Carnegie Hall on November 13, 1948.[1] Written 1933–1936
    Published 1949 by Tempo
    Music
    Contents Released 1948
    Background Genre Jazz
    Other versions Songwriter(s) Billy Strayhorn
    References
    External links

    Background
    The lyric describes the author's weariness of the night life after a
    failed romance, wasting time with "jazz and cocktails" at "come-
    what-may places" and in the company of girls with "sad and sullen
    gray faces/with distingué traces". Strayhorn was a teenager when he
    wrote most of the song, which was to become his signature
    composition (along with "Take the 'A' Train").

    The song was written in the key of D-flat major.[1] The melody is
    over relatively complex chord changes, compared with many jazz
    standards, with chromatic movement and modulations that evoke a
    dreamlike state and the dissolute spirit characteristic of the so-called
    lush life.
    Billy Strayhorn
    Nat King Cole performed "Lush Life" in 1949, while trumpeter Harry
    James recorded it four times. In the 1950s it was performed by jazz
    vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, and Sarah Vaughan. John Coltrane recorded it twice. One was a 14-
    minute version in 1958 as the title track of an album for Prestige. The other was in 1963 with vocalist Johnny
    Hartman. Kurt Elling recorded a version for his album Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of
    Coltrane and Hartman.[1]

    Linda Ronstadt's version won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying
    Vocal(s) (1986).

    Other musicians who have recorded the song include Joey Alexander, Chet Baker, Andy Bey, Anthony
    Braxton, Sylvia Brooks, Kate Ceberano & Mark Isham, Sammy Davis Jr., Blossom Dearie, Bebi Dol, Lisa
    Ekdahl, Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson, Bill Frisell, Lady Gaga, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Stevie Holland,
    José James, Molly Johnson, Rickie Lee Jones, Sheila Jordan, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Queen Latifah, Julie
    London, Patti Lupone, Johnny Mathis, Tito Puente, Joshua Redman, Buddy Rich, Linda Ronstadt, Tony
    Scott, Rare Silk, Terell Stafford, McCoy Tyner, Ernie Watts, Bob Welch, and Nancy Wilson.
    Other versions
    Billy Eckstine – No Cover, No Minimum (1960)
    John Coltrane - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)
    Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963), Thank You for Everything
    (1998), rec. 1976
    Jack Jones – Where Love Has Gone (1964)
    Nancy Wilson - Lush Life (1967)
    Bud Powell - "Strictly" Powell Vol. 1 (1975)
    Donna Hightower – El Jazz y Donna Hightower (1975)
    Donna Summer – Donna Summer produced by Quincy Jones (1982)
    Rickie Lee Jones – Girl at Her Volcano (1983)
    Rare Silk - "New Weave" (1983)
    Joe Pass - Virtuoso No. 4 (1983, recorded in 1973)[2]
    Tony Scott – Lush Life and Lush Life Volume 2 (1989) – a tour de force, with 13 interpretations
    of the song. From the liner notes: "An homage to Billy Strayhorn's 'Lush Life', an obsession,
    fullfilled (sic) by Tony Scott"
    Natalie Cole – Unforgettable... with Love (1991)
    Eileen Farrell – It's Over (1991)
    Queen Latifah – The Dana Owens Album (2004)
    Lady Gaga – Cheek to Cheek (2014)

    References
    1. Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. New York City: Oxford
    University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
    2. "allmusic.com" (https://www.allmusic.com/album/virtuoso-no-4-mw0000105418). allmusic.com.
    Retrieved June 1, 2020.

    External links
    The song's entry at jazzstandards.com (http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/lushlife.h
    tm)

    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lush_Life_(jazz_song)&oldid=1003249435"

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