Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn

[motherlode]

Someone wrote:

I know this is blasphemy, but I think Lush Life is a dreary tedious song.

Funny, I don't hear that coming from the composer playing his own music.
Perhaps the respondent confused interpretation(s) with the merit of the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALuBvw1_VAc

[CyrilleB]

Ella Fitzgerald version:

Lush Life (Ella Fitzgerald) - Billy Strayhorn

[CyrilleB]

Billy Strayhorn version:

Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn