Lush / Joe Clarke Big Band
) | Label: JMD Catalog: 1060 Format: CD Clark, Joe/Big Band/HamiltonWell You Needn’t • Red Sky • Lush Life • Samba de Martelo • Free-Wheeling • Femme Fatale • Tenderly • Yesterday’s Gardenias The debut big band album of award-winning composer and arranger Joe Clark, Lush simmers and swings with a line-up of Chicago’s best jazz players and Grammy®-winning drummer Jeff Hamilton playing jazz standards and new compositions! Clark leads the band on exciting and intimate new originals and arrangements influenced by film noir and the greasy sound of New Orleans brass bands, including “Well You Needn’t,” “Lush Life,” and “Tenderly.” Features the hard-driving swing of Grammy®-winning drummer Jeff Hamilton, co-director of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and renowned for his work with the Count Basie Orchestra, Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd, the Bill Holman Band, Ray Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Diana Krall.  Price: $19.98 |