JOE WILLIAMS "Lush Life" - 1981 DUKE ELLINGTON tribute video free download


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Duration: 03:49
Uploaded: 2012/05/03

This segment of a television broadcast is from a 1981 tribute to Duke Ellington that took place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The orchestra of jazz heavyweights was conducted by Billy Taylor who also is playing piano here as Joe Williams is featured on "Lush Life", Billy Strayhorn's masterpiece.

Here's SARAH VAUGHAN from this same broadcast doing "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart". http://youtu.be/hxRYWzA698M

Listen to Joe Williams doing "Here's To Life" from an NPR tribute that was broadcast a few days after he passed away. http://youtu.be/8TK9Y9Gi3AQ

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Comments

10 years ago

Vaughn Marlowe

Are you crazy? No 15 year old could write such a sophisticated song!He was SIXTEEN.

10 years ago

norihey rahsaan

absolutely kind man.

10 years ago

Jay Young

Is that Billy Taylor on piano?

10 years ago

Jay Young

They Billy Strayhorn was a ripe 15 years of age when he wrote this fantastic jazz number. And again Joe Williams wears so well in his rendition of the Strayhorn composition.

10 years ago

Kathryn Evenson

Superlative and masterful. The (small) breaks in diction only emphasize the intensity of the emotions being expressed. (deep sigh...........) Oh, Joseph!!

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