"Lush Life" is more like an exercise than a song. As pretty as it sounds, I think it was written as an attempt at complexity.
In my 32 years of working music rooms, that one was NEVER requested....... although we've offered it for free sometimes.

Jazz tunes are in the minority in the pop world, and as much as I love all types of music -- learning more jazz won't make me anymore money, or make me more popular. It's one of life's little pleasures that I take as a gift whenever I can. In fact last night I took a gig with a jazz trio as a drummer! What a ball I had!

I used my Roland digital set, and everyone loved it. I even surprised myself that I was able to keep up with the piano player -- what a freakin' monster he was. The whole band used my gear, because they wanted to check out the stuff. I had my Fender Jazz Deluxe bass, my Roland FP3 piano, and my SPD20 pad kit. It was sooooo cool. We were very straight ahead, and swung almost every Christmas tune there is!
Now I'm back to the real world, and no one will need me or my drums for a long time, so I'll set them back up in my studio for my next midnight session. It's a great way to blow off steam after a gig. I play for about 15 minutes and I feel all relaxed..... and NO one wakes up -- cuz I'm on headphones! It's a beautiful thing.

As far as jazz tunes go - I like to make jazzy arrangements of popular stuff so the crowd knows the tunes, but can "swing" with the feel. I believe it's better to give them the tunes they want, but keep the arrangements fresh, and exciting. That keeps ME interested. Most of my crowd wouldn't appreciate REAL jazz anyway. That select few rarely comes into the places I work. Some of the standards that have made it to my venues include
"On Green Dolphin Street", "Breezin",
and ANY Duke Ellington tune. If I played Miles or Trane ... I'd loose them.

Sorry to drift off topic - fake books are great for study, and to get you out of a jam now & then, but I wouldn't let people see me read too often - then they think it's "K" time. (yuk)