Home / Music / Strayhorn's 'Lush Life' gives the Coltrane album its titleMusic linernotes album music john-coltraneStrayhorn's 'Lush Life' gives the Coltrane album its titleThe title track “Lush Life,” written by Billy Strayhorn in the 1930s, is performed here as a trio piece with Coltrane’s tenor saxophone accompanied only by bass and drums. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesCrescent is Coltrane at his most melodic — a calm before the free-jazz stormNaima was recorded with Miles Davis's rhythm section, not Coltrane's usual bandColtrane blew up his quartet to 21 musicians for Africa/BrassBlue Train has five tracks — four Coltrane originals and a standardBallads was John Coltrane's second Impulse! album — but the first to focus entirely on balladsExploreCharles Mingus paid tribute to jazz greats on Mingus Ah Um.Patricia Barber's 'Icarus' on Mythologies was dedicated to Nina Simone.Miles Davis's 'If I Were a Bell' solo is widely studied by jazz musicians.Don Cherry became Cheb i Sabbah's musical mentor in 1970s New York.Tupac's 'Pour Out a Little Liquor' anchored the Juice soundtrackPrevious The Astrud Gilberto Album came out in 1965 on VerveNext Russell played cello and vocals through layers of echo on World of Echo