Lush Life (Tete Montoliu album)

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]

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
That's All (1971) Lush Life (1986) Songs for Love (1971)

Reception

Professional ratings

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

Scott Yanow of AllMusic said "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

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

References

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