Billy Strayhorn
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Billy Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio. He began his musical career in Pittsburgh, where he studied for a time at the Pittsburgh Music Institute, wrote a high school musical and, while still in his teens, composed “Lush Life”, a work that had the world weariness of an older man. He met Duke Ellington backstage after an Ellington performance in Pittsburgh in 1938. Here he first told, and then showed, the band leader how he would have arranged one of Duke’s own pieces. Ellington was impressed enough to invite other band members to hear Strayhorn. At the end of the visit he arranged for Strayhorn to meet him when the band returned to New York. Strayhorn worked for Ellington for the next quarter century until his early death from cancer.
Strayhorn’s relationship with Ellington was always difficult to pin down: he was a gifted composer and arranger who seemed to flourish in Duke’s shadow.
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Piano Passion
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Lush Life
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The Peaceful Side Of Jazz
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Cue For Saxophone
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ZombieOrchestra
Thank you for existing, however little long it was. Thank you.
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headey
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frederickellis
Billy Strayhorn is not remembered as he should be. The arrangements & compositions he did for Ellington are the stuff of legends.
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SirAlecHendrix
Billy Strayhorn—now connected to the brandnew group ➤ Round Midnight
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F_Hole
Words fail to convey the joy Mr. Strayhorn's music has brought to me over the years. No matter how many mod players have tried to lay claim to his music, Mr. Strayhorn's playing, composing and orchestration would be unique in any era. Truly an American autodidact in the great tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Duke Ellington, Preston Tucker, Charles Ives, or Emily Dickinson.
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neilbombd
A genius.
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accokeek
A new film on Billy Strayhorn is available. It's excellent. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/billystrayhorn/film.html
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