Lush Life

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman · 1963

Context

Standard by Billy Strayhorn, covered here by singer Johnny Hartman with John Coltrane's quartet. Hartman put it on the program after hearing Nat King Cole's version on the radio on his way to the studio. The album, released by Impulse! in summer 1963, entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Modal. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

Cited in 1 radio episode

• Oct 6, 2026: LUSH LIFE - STANDARD DE LUXE (Anatomie d'un titre, TSF Jazz, in French)

By the same artist

• Alabama (1963)
• My One and Only Love (1963)
• Bessie's Blues (1964)
• Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme) (1965)
• My Favorite Things (1961)
• Ascension (1965)

Sources

• EN: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

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