Description
Joe Henderson – Lush Life / The Music Of Billy Strayhorn / Audio CD
UPC 731451177927
Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn is an album by the 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. Musicians on the album are trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Stephen Scott, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.
| Label: | Verve Records – 511 779-2 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: | 1992 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Post Bop |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Isfahan | 5:59 | |
| 2 | Johnny Come Lately | 6:30 | |
| 3 | Blood Count | 7:20 | |
| 4 | Rain Check | 5:50 | |
| 5 | Lotus Blossom | 4:31 | |
| 6 | A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing | 6:58 | |
| 7 | Take The "A" Train | 7:12 | |
| 8 | Drawing Room Blues | 7:33 | |
| 9 | U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) | 5:00 | |
| 10 | Lush Life | 4:57 |
- Arranged By – Don Sickler (tracks: 1, 6, 8)
- Art Direction – Étsuko*
- Bass – Christian McBride (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 8, 9)
- Composed By – Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington (tracks: 1)
- Design – Larry Offsey
- Drums – Gregory Hutchinson (tracks: 2 to 4, 6, 7, 9)
- Engineer [Assistant] – Maureen Sickler
- Liner Notes – Dean Pratt, Stanley Crouch
- Photography By [CD Inlay, Billy Strayhorn Photo] – William Claxton
- Photography By [Cover & Booklet Photography] – Susan Ragan
- Piano – Stephen Scott (5) (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9)
- Producer – Don Sickler, Richard Seidel
- Producer [Production Assistant] – Camille Tominaro
- Product Manager – Ben Mundy
- Recorded By [Digitally], Mixed By, Mastered By – Rudy Van Gelder
- Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
- Transcription By [Music] – Don Sickler
- Trumpet – Wynton Marsalis (tracks: 2, 6, 9)
