LUSH LIFE

Created on 19/02/2006
Latest update on 20/04/2024

Artist: Duke Ellington Orch.
Author: Billy Strayhorn
Label: Vintage Jazz Classic
Year: 1948

At Carnegie Hall. Vocal: Kay Davis, piano: author Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's arranger between '39 and '67; wrote Take The A Train.

Covers:

1949:

Nat King Cole

1949:

Stan Getz

1950:

Tito Puente

1954:

Harry James

1955:

Sarah Vaughan

1957:

Ella Fitzgerald

1957:

John Coltrane [and in '63 with Johnny Hartman]

1960:

Julie London

1962:

Billy Strayhorn [author]

1967:

Nancy Wilson

1982:

Toots Thielemans

1982:

Donna Summer

1983:

Rickie Lee Jones

1984:

Linda Ronstadt [album title track]

1990:

Living Colour [sampled the intro of Nat King Cole's version to start off their Love Rears Its Ugly Head]

1992:

Joe Henderson

1994:

Chick Corea

1994:

Elvin Jones

1998:

Queen Latifah

2000:

Georgie Fame

2005:

Calvin Newborn

2010:

José James & Jef Neve

2010:

Wyatt-Atzmon-Stephen

2014:

Lady Gaga

2019:

Bill Frisell [and in '24 with the Brussels Philharmonic]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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