There are great jazz albums and then there are tasty great jazz albums. This is the latter—Russ Garcia's Four Horns and a Lush Life (Bethlehem). Recorded in Hollywood in November 1955, the band ...
Billy Strayhorn had one of the most unusual careers in jazz. Today his genius as a composer of jazz and song is uniformly acknowledged, but that was not the case during his lifetime. Strayhorn spent ...
Frank Sinatra’s incomplete attempt to record Billy Strayhorn’s intricate jazz classic “Lush Life” is one of the most curious episodes in the great singer’s immense canon. He commissioned an ...