Lush_Life_(Nancy_Wilson_album)

Lush Life
Lush Life
Studio album by Nancy Wilson
Released	August 1967
Recorded	May 13–16, 1967
Studio	Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre	Vocal jazz
Label	Capitol
Producer	Dave Cavanaugh
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<i>Lush Life</i> (Nancy Wilson album)

Lush Life (Nancy Wilson album)

1967 studio album by Nancy Wilson

Lush Life is a 1967 album by Nancy Wilson, arranged by Billy May, Sid Feller, and Oliver Nelson.^[1]

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In his AllMusic review, Nick Dedina says the album continues "Wilson's winning formula of combining jazz and adult pop." He also praises Billy May's arrangement of the title track "as a means to tip his hat to Billy Strayhorn, the song's composer, with a smart mix of big band swagger, intimate small-group jazz, and moody orchestral flourishes straight out of an old film noir."^[1]

Author and music critic Will Friedwald also recommends the title song, hailing it as one of the "good orchestral versions" of the famous jazz standard and commending Wilson for how she "slyly uses 'A-Train' as a countermelody."^[3]

A 1970 LP reissue was entitled The Right To Love.^[4] In 1995, Capitol released the album on compact disc under its original title, with one additional track ("Do You Know Why") and a different song order.^[5]

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[Dedina-1] [1]
Allmusic review

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Larkin, Colin (2004). "Nancy Wilson". The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz (Rev Upd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 941. ISBN 1852271833.

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Friedwald, Will (2002). Stardust melodies : the biography of twelve of America's most popular songs (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780307559982. OCLC 891714972.

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"Nancy Wilson - The Right To Love". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-11-15.

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"Nancy Wilson - Lush Life (CD, Album, Reissue)". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-29.

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Mirtle, Jack (1998). The Music of Billy May: A Discography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 271–272. ISBN 0313307393.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Free Again"	Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby	3:45
2.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer	3:48
3.	"Only the Young"	Richard Ahlert, Marvin Fisher	2:23
4.	"(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young"	Mercer, Michel Philippe-Gérard, Angèle Vannier	3:15
5.	"The Right to Love (Reflections)"	Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin	3:24
6.	"Lush Life"	Billy Strayhorn	3:27
Total length:			20:02

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Over the Weekend"	John Benson Brooks, Joseph McCarthy	3:02
2.	"You've Changed"	Bill Carey, Carl T. Fischer	2:48
3.	"River Shallow"	André Previn, Dory Previn	3:28
4.	"Sunny"	Bobby Hebb	3:58
5.	"(I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair"	Billy Barnes	3:22
Total length:			16:38

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Free Again"	Joss Baselli, Armand Canfora, Robert Colby	3:47
2.	"You've Changed"	Bill Carey, Carl T. Fischer	2:49
3.	"Only the Young"	Richard Ahlert, Marvin Fisher	2:24
4.	"Lush Life"	Billy Strayhorn	3:27
5.	"Do You Know Why?" (Bonus track not on original LP)	Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen	2:41
6.	"Midnight Sun"	Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer	3:51
7.	"When the World Was Young (Ah, the Apple Trees)"	Mercer, Michel Philippe-Gérard, Angèle Vannier	3:15
8.	"River Shallow"	André Previn, Dory Previn	3:28
9.	"(I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair"	Billy Barnes	3:26
10.	"Sunny"	Bobby Hebb	3:59
11.	"The Right to Love (Reflections)"	Gene Lees, Lalo Schifrin	3:26
12.	"Over the Weekend"	John Benson Brooks, Joseph McCarthy	3:02
Total length:			39:35

Lush_Life_(Nancy_Wilson_album)

Lush Life (Nancy Wilson album)

Track listing

1967 Original LP

1995 CD reissue

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	^[2]