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Joe Henderson: Lush Life: The Music Of Billy Strayhorn

On February 18, 1992, “Verve” label released “Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn”, the 29th Joe Henderson album. It was recorded in September 1991, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Richard Seidel and Don Sickler.

Personnel:

  • Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
  • Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
  • Stephen Scott – piano
  • Christian McBride – bass
  • Gregory Hutchinson – drums
  • Don Sickler – arrangements, transcription
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer, mixing
  • Maureen Sickler – engineer assistant 
  • Camille Tominaro – production assistant
  • Larry Offsey – design
  • William Claxton – photography
  • Susan Ragan – photography
  • Stanley Crouch – liner notes
  • Dean Pratt – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Billy Strayhorn except where noted.

  1. Isfahan – Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
  2. Johnny Come Lately
  3. Blood Count
  4. Rain Check
  5. Lotus Blossom
  6. A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
  7. Take the ‘A’ Train
  8. Drawing Room Blues
  9. U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group)
  10. Lush Life

Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice

On October 21, 2002, “ECM” label released “Lift Every Voice”, the 33rd Charles Lloyd album. It was recorded in February 2002, and was produced by Charles Lloyd, and Dorothy Darr.

Personnel:

  • Charles Lloyd – tenor saxophone, flute, tarogato
  • Geri Allen – piano
  • John Abercrombie – guitar
  • Marc Johnson – double bass
  • Larry Grenadier – double bass
  • Billy Hart – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Lloyd, except where noted.

  1. Hymn to the Mother
  2. You Are So Beautiful – Bruce Fisher, Billy Preston
  3. Amazing Grace – John Newton
  4. East Virginia, West Memphis
  5. What’s Going On – Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye
  6. Angel Oak
  7. Te Amaré – Silvio Rodríguez
  8. I’m Afraid – Duke Ellington
  9. Hafez, Shattered Heart
  10. Rabo de Nube – Silvio Rodríguez
  11. Blood Count – Billy Strayhorn
  12. Go Down Moses – traditional
  13. Beyond Darkness
  14. Nocturne
  15. Wayfaring Stranger – traditional
  16. Deep River – traditional
  17. Lift Every Voice and Sing – James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson
  18. Prayer, The Crossing