Lush Life: The Billy Strayhorn Songbook

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Producers: Bob Shad (track 1); Jack Tracy (track 2); Norman Granz (tracks 3-7, 9, 12, 15); John Synder (track 8); Creed Taylor (track 10); Quincy Jones (track 11); Richard Seidel, Don Sickler (track 13); Stan Getz, Ib Skovgaard (track 14). Compilation producer: David Hajdu. Recorded between August 1950 and September 1991. Includes liner notes by David Hajdu. Personnel: Ella Fitzgerald, The Hi-Lo's, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Jim Hall, Al Hendrickson, Barry Galbraith (guitar); Mischa Russell, Mac Ceppos, David Novales (violin); Richard Dickler (viola); Robert DiDomenica (flute); Seymour Red Press, Russell Procope (clarinet, alto saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Tony Scott (clarinet); Danny Bank (woodwinds, baritone saxophone); Ernie Bright, Stanley Webb , Raymond Beckenstein, John Murtaugh, Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque (woodwinds); Jack Nimitz, Buddy Collette (saxophone); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Ernie Wilkins, Frank Morgan , Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter (alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Eddie Wasserman, Joe Henderson, Paul Gonsalves, Stan Getz , Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); Clark Terry, Cootie Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal, Ed Mullens, Herbie Jones, Jimmy Zito, John Frost , Paul Serrano, Ray Copeland , Ray Nance, Rolf Ericson, Roy Eldridge, Shorty Baker, Snooky Young, Bernie Glow, Bill Berry , Cat Anderson (trumpet); Ray Alonge (French horn, trombone); Joe Singer, Robert Northern, James Buffington (French horn); Richard Berg, Tommy Mitchell , Jimmy Cleveland, Lawrence Brown , Quentin Jackson, Urbie Green, Bennie Green , Billy Byers, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper (trombone); Tony Studd, Paul Faulise (bass trombone); Jay McAllister (tuba); George Cables, Hank Jones , Jimmy Jones , Jimmy Rowles, Kenny Barron, Lalo Schifrin, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan, Billy Strayhorn, Cecil Taylor (piano); Louie Bellson (drums, tambourine); Denis Charles, Jo Jones , Lewis Nash , Sam Woodyard, Stan Levey, Victor Lewis, Charlie Persip (drums); Ray Barretto, Willie Rodriguez (percussion). Liner Note Author: David Hajdu. Recording information: BMG Studios, New York, NY (08/1950-09/1991); Fine Sound, New York, NY (08/1950-09/1991); New York, NY (08/1950-09/1991); Newport Jazz Festival, Rho (08/1950-09/1991); United Recorders, Hollywood, CA (08/1950-09/1991); Webster Hall, New York, NY (08/1950-09/1991). Photographer: Herman Leonard. Unknown Contributor Roles: Nichell Delvaille; George Devens; Peter Pullman. Arrangers: Clare Fischer; Hal Mooney; Jimmy Jones ; Oliver Nelson; Billy Strayhorn; Bobby Tucker. As an informal soundtrack for his revealing biography of Billy Strayhorn, Lush Life, David Hajdu selected and annotated the tracks for this rambling dig through the PolyGram archives. In doing so, Hajdu ranges far afield in date and idiom, yet the overall impression is amazingly consistent of Strayhorn as an elegant yet haunted musical figure whose work has a strikingly individual and timeless signature. Strayhorn himself is typically lodged in the background, appearing on two lovely Johnny Hodges tracks, "Your Love Has Faded" and "Three and Six," a Louie Bellson rarity, "Far-Eastern Weekend," and Ben Webster's "Chelsea Bridge" in various roles arranging, conducting, and playing piano. Yet the mighty Ellington band only turns up on on "Something to Live For," suavely backing a marvelously evocative Ella Fitzgerald interpretation. Given the tone of the book, one imagines that the scarcity of Ellington tracks was deliberate, to let Strayhorn's work shine on its own without having to compete with Duke's flashy aura. A few random high points: Dizzy Gillespie's pithy, witty, and swinging solo in "U.M.M.G.," a great, dynamic Oliver Nelson chart backing Art Farmer's "Rain Check," Cecil Taylor's slightly fractured version of "Johnny Come Lately" live at Newport, and the inevitable "Take the 'A' Train" in a JATP jam. Sarah Vaughan, Oscar
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