Lush Life (Tete Montoliu album)

Lush Life
Lush Life
Studio album by Tete Montoliu
Released	1986
Recorded	September 25, 1971
Studio	Bavaria Sound Studio, Munich, Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:16
Label	SteepleChase; SCS 1216
Producer	Nils Winther
Tete Montoliu chronology

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[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[5]

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".^[4]

Track listing[edit]

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

Personnel[edit]

Tete Montoliu – piano

References[edit]

^ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed June 19, 2017
^ Tete Montoliu discography, accessed June 19, 2017
^ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed June 19, 2017
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. Tete Montoliu: Lush Life – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1021. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[1] SteepleChase Records discography, accessed June 19, 2017

[2] Tete Montoliu discography, accessed June 19, 2017

[3] SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed June 19, 2017

[Allmusic-4] Yanow, Scott. Tete Montoliu: Lush Life – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2017.

[Penguin-5] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1021. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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v t e Tete Montoliu
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	A Tot Jazz (1965) A Tot Jazz/2 (1965) Tete Montoliu Presenta Elia Fleta (1966) Piano for Nuria (1968) Body & Soul (1971) Lush Life (1971) Songs for Love (1971) That's All (1971) Catalonian Fire (1974) Music for Perla (1974) Tete! (1974) Tête à Tete (1976) Tootie's Tempo (1976) Words of Love (1976) Blues for Myself (1977) Boleros (1977) Catalonian Folksongs (1977) Meditation (with George Coleman, 1977) Secret Love (1977) Yellow Dolphin Street (1977) Live at the Keystone Corner (1979) Lunch in L.A. (1979) Boston Concert (1980) I Wanna Talk About You (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 1 (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 2 (1980) Catalonian Nights Vol. 3 (1980) Face to Face (with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1982) Carmina (1984) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 1 (1986) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 2 (1986) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 3 (1990) The Music I Like to Play Vol. 4 (1990) The Man from Barcelona (1990) A Spanish Treasure (1991) Catalonian Rhapsody (1992)
With Dexter Gordon	Billie's Bounce (1964) Cheese Cake (1964) I Want More (1964) It's You or No One (1964) King Neptune (1964) Love for Sale (1964) Bouncin' with Dex (1975)
With others	In the Tradition (with Anthony Braxton, 1974) In the Tradition Volume 2 (with Anthony Braxton, 1974) Steps Up (with Eddie Harris, 1981) Dog Years in the Fourth Ring (1963) Kirk in Copenhagen (with Roland Kirk, 1963) The House I Live In (wih Archie Shepp & Lars Gullin, 1963)