Topic: Billy Strayhorn
Last year, I came across" My Favorite Records," a little-known 1948 work by Thomas Mann. Such lists are unavoidable these days, but classical music...
This Side of Strayhorn (MAXJAZZ) Terell Stafford In the spring of 2009, trumpeter Terell Stafford took his quintet to Dayton, Ohio, to play an...
If you need your creative impulses jogged, read on. I'm feeling inspired myself, having gathered the responses below to several questions having to...
Blue Note in New York City's Greenwich Village is considered one of the world's most famous jazz venues. And it was here where Chrisette Michele...
Successful songwriters can come from any social or economic background. They may have trained at a conservatory, such as Julliard, or be entirely self-taught. the Complete Guide to the Craft," lists Billy Joel, Barry Manilow and Joni Mitchell as songwriters who compose ...
The Nutcracker and Peer Gynt, Arranged by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Celebrate the season with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's 1960 adaptations of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Grieg's Peer Gynt. To recreate these classics, Ellington and Strayhorn developed a ...
Two of the greatest jazz composers were Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967). The exhibition examines two of their most ubiquitous pieces, "Caravan" (1936) composed by Ellington and Juan Tizol and "Take the 'A' Train" (1941) composed by Strayhorn, through documents ...
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Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn
This was from 1965, and one of the very times ...2007-07-08 -
Independent Lens "BILLY STRAYHORN: LUSH LIFE ...
As Duke Ellington's long-time collaborator, Billy Strayhorn penned some ...2007-01-31 -
BILLY STRAYHORN sings and plays LUSH ...
IN PERSON! The one and only BILLY STRAYHORN himself sings ...2011-01-25
