Lush Life (Tete Montoliu album) explained

Lush Life
Type:	Album
Artist:	Tete Montoliu
Cover:	Lush Life (Tete Montoliu album).jpg
Released:	1986
Recorded:	September 25, 1971
Studio:	Bavaria Sound Studio, Munich, Germany
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	45:16
Label:	SteepleChase SCS 1216
Producer:	Nils Winther
Chronology:	Tete Montoliu
Prev Title:	That's All
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	Songs for Love
Next Year:	1971

Lush Life is a solo album by pianist Tete Montoliu recorded in 1971 and released on the Danish label SteepleChase in 1986.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "This set finds the great pianist Tete Montoliu performing his fresh and virtuosic interpretations of six standards, plus two versions of Perry Robinson's "Margareta" and his own original 'Dia Inolvidabli'. A typically excellent and swinging set".

Track listing

1. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 2:44
2. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 6:04
3. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) - 5:34
4. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:58
5. "Margareta" [take 1] (Perry Robinson) - 4:22
6. "Dia Inolvidabli" (Tete Montoliu) - 4:47
7. "Margareta" [take 2] (Robinson) - 5:36
8. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 4:54
9. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:17

Personnel

• Tete Montoliu – piano

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1200.htm SteepleChase Records discography
2. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Montoliu/tete-disc.php Tete Montoliu discography
3. http://steeplechase.dk/wordpress/tete-montoliu-lush-life-sccd-31216/ SteepleChase Productions ApS