Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
| Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1992 | |||
| Recorded | September 3, 6 & 8, 1991 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 61:50 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Richard Seidel, Don Sickler | |||
| Joe Henderson chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
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.