Overview

• The album gathers 12 previously shelved charts by Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Don Costa that were written for Frank Sinatra but never recorded
• After securing the library from Tina Sinatra, MacFarlane and conductor John Wilson reconstructed incomplete scores by setting tempos, orchestrating parts and adapting Italian verses
• Issued this June on Big Machine Records, Lush Life is MacFarlane’s ninth studio album and underscores his commitment to the Great American Songbook
• MacFarlane will perform selections from the new collection during a July 3–5 residency at the Venetian in Las Vegas
• Sinatra Enterprises archivist Charlie Pignone estimates there are at least two more albums’ worth of unrecorded material awaiting release