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Seth MacFarlane Breaks Down ‘Lush Life,’ His New Album With Previously Unreleased Frank Sinatra Arrangements
Seth MacFarlane goes deep on, 'Lush Life,' his new album featuring unused Frank Sinatra gifted to him by the singer's son.
Many of these were the work of some of the most renowned arrangers of the 20th century: Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa (all of whom are represented on the new album) plus Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mandel, Quincy Jones, Neal Hefti and others. Some of those songs would not be standards today if they weren’t done the way Frank and the arrangers envisioned them.” (Steve Lawrence once contended that “if Riddle, May and Costa were living in the 17th or 18th century, they would have been Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven.”) In the case of Billy Strayhorn’s jazz standard “ Lush Life,” Sinatra actually started, but never finished, recording Riddle’s sophisticated arrangement in 1958.
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