"Lush Life"

Joe Hunter and his guest, jazz pianist Les Roberts, listen with you to 4 renditions of "Lush Life" by Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Billy Strayhorn, & Queen Latifah. Joe and Les discuss the relative obscurity of this song, they tell stories behind the different performers of this song, and they reveal their honest feelings about each each version of it. You'll enjoy this week's bonus tune too, which was also written by Billy Strayhorn, called "I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye," performed by Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington and his orchestra.

You can listen to "Lush Life" online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

"Lush Life" is an episode from I've Heard That Song Before by Evergreen Podcasts.

This episode is 33:46 long.

This episode was published on Jul 13, 2017.

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