Joe Mooney - Lush Life (1958) [Reissue 1999]
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 172 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 81 MB | Covers - 13 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Koch Jazz (KOC-CD-8524)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 172 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 81 MB | Covers - 13 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Koch Jazz (KOC-CD-8524)
For decades, Joe Mooney's only Atlantic LP, Joe Mooney's Songs, was out of print - and if a collector was able to find a rare copy at a vinyl swap meet, he/she knew that the thing to do was grab it at once. Then, in 1999, the album finally became available on CD when Koch Jazz reissued it as Lush Life. An intimate session that finds Mooney on vocals and organ, Lee Robinson on guitar, Milt Hinton on bass, and Osie Johnson on drums, Lush Life shows just how charismatic a singer Mooney could be. Some of Mooney's admirers compared his casual, smooth, relaxed style of singing to that of Nat King Cole, and while that isn't a bad comparison, Mooney's highly accessible versions of "Lush Life," "My One and Only Love," "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," and other standards point to the fact that he was most certainly his own man…