JOE WILLIAMS "Lush Life" - 1981 DUKE ELLINGTON tribute
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This segment of a television broadcast is from a 1981 tribute to Duke Ellington that took place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The orchestra of jazz heavyweights was conducted by Billy Taylor who also is playing piano here as Joe Williams is featured on "Lush Life", Billy Strayhorn's masterpiece.
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!["Lush Life" performed by Kay Davis and Billy Strayhorn [First documented recording]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GqTDm34vyj0/mqdefault.jpg)
Absolutely Divine.
This gentleman, was in my view, sadly underrated.
Thank you Mr Williams.
Not forgetting Mr Strayhorn.
I never get tired of this song, especially by the great Joe Williams. I only wish people would credit the composer, wonderful Billy Strayhorn, who wrote so many of Ellington's most iconic songs like this one, Take the A Train, Satin Doll, Passion Flower, and on and on.
100%
How lucky we were to see Joe in Reno in the early 80's.Great talent, fabulous, your humanity, your self-depreciation towards us, your audience.We all miss this wonderful man.
They Billy Strayhorn was a ripe 15 years of age when he wrote this fantastic jazz number. And again Joe Williams wears so well in his rendition of the Strayhorn composition.
Go, Joe! I love this man's voice!! And can he tell a story!!
Are you crazy? No 15 year old could write such a sophisticated song!
He was SIXTEEN.
He was 11 !!!
Really should have been a household name for his music and voice.
Such a sophisticated blues singer. Loved every note he hit. I wish we had met.
What a great, but under rated, vocalist he was! The first and only time I saw him in person, he was with the Count Basie Orchestra at the N.Y. Paramount theatre. It was in 1956, at the time Frank Sinatra was in person also promoting an horrible western he made called “Johnny Coucho” I think. At the time I was 19 years old. A little while later I bought 2 solo albums by him on the RCA label.
Joe Williams...music all day long...what a voice!
Joe Williams was best appreciated in one of those stay up late cafes. After hours venue, say, on Sunset Boulevard, the Sunset Strip.
Billy Strayhorn born 1915, composed Lush Life over 3 years 1933-36. But it was only fitst publicly performed in 1948 by Strayhorn and Kay Davis with the Duke Ellington orchestra ... Wiki.
I saw Mr. Williams @ a Hampton ( Virginia ) Jazz Festival in the Eighties. Wonderful listen.
Tks. much.
Superlative and masterful. The (small) breaks in diction only emphasize the intensity of the emotions being expressed. (deep sigh...........) Oh, Joseph!!
absolutely kind man.
This is very deep… Also check out Kurt Elling and Billy Strayhorn himself sing this one!
Sad but beautiful song.
They say Billy Strayhorn was only 15 days away from being conceived by his parents when he wrote this existential hymn to not yet existing
The stuff of life
In these moments there’s another place myself goes !
Is that Billy Taylor on piano?
Was written for Pete y V
Is this Paul Williams brother from the Temps
No relationship to Paul Williams of The Temptations. They are each a part of another generation
Not Cali...NYC...Hoppers and The Cookery...the coolest, kind, funny man...generosity of spirit and talent.
Actually, Joe Williams did perform at Shelley’s Manne Hole on Cahuenga in Hollywood in the 60’s, 70’s. He did perform at the Cookery, on 8th Street in Manhattan with Billy Taylor on piano in the 70’s and early 80’s. Also saw him at Lulu White’s in Boston in the late 70’s. He was a personal friend of my father, with great sense of humor, very down to earth, and in his later years he was performing regularly in Las Vegas.
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Strayhorn was 19
I read he was 16.
@@nadyarossi5102 started writing it at 16 - took him a few years and was like his private thoughts