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	Billy Strayhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 - May 31, 1967) was an American composer and pianist, perhaps most famous for having written "Take the A Train" and for his collaboration with Duke Ellington.
		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.
		Strayhorn, for his part, may have preferred to stay out of the limelight, since that also allowed him to be out of the closet in an era and a community that did not tolerate gay artists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Strayhorn (526 words)

	Something To Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
		Billy Strayhorn has never been a household name, and though he wrote for Duke Ellington and his orchestra for nearly 30 years, the older composer has always overshadowed the younger one.
		Strayhorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1915, to a working class family, who shortly thereafter moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		Strayhorn worked as a soda jerk and in 1936 enrolled at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute where he studied with Charles Boyd, who died during his term of instruction.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Strayhorn.html (1094 words)

	The Duke Ellington Society - Billy Strayhorn - Biography
		Billy, however, was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915.
		Billy was attracted to the piano that his grandmother, Elizabeth Craig Strayhorn owned.
		The latter Strayhorn conducted at the Negro Exposition in Chicago in 1963.
	www.thedukeellingtonsociety.org /dukeellington/billybio.asp (679 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Strayhorn, William Thomas
		Racism was certainly a factor contributing to Strayhorn's lack of musical training: he was discouraged from applying to colleges because he was fl--and fl concert pianists were practically nonexistent at the time.
		Strayhorn and Bridgers were anything but secretive about their relationship, and Strayhorn's homosexuality became well known in the fl musical community.
		While Strayhorn refused to pity himself or complain to friends and family, it was clear that he was often unhappy with his failure to receive credit for work that had helped make Ellington rich and famous.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/strayhorn_w.html (1033 words)

	Strayhorn, Billy on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strayhorn's compositions include Take the A Train,”; the group's theme, and such standards as “Chelsea Bridge,” “Satin Doll,” and “Passion Flower.” His sophisticated approach and his introspective, nuanced, and impressionist-tinged style meshed beautifully with Ellington's own.
		Openly gay in a homophobic era and business, Strayhorn avoided the spotlight, and his achievements and contributions to the Ellington sound were not fully understood by the public for many years.
		The Arts: Mr Ellington, this is how I would play it Billy Strayhorn was a hard-drinking homosexual, Duke Ellington a flamboyant womaniser.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/strayhrn.asp (431 words)

	Billy Strayhorn Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The “Billy” that Ellington refers to is arranger/composer Billy Strayhorn.
		Strayhorn had aspired to become a concert pianist prior to working for Ellington and had studied both piano and composition at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute.
		Blue Rose proves that Strayhorn was a rare musician; one who could, when necessary, disguise his own style in favor of another’s while creating music that has great meaning and depth.
	jaynpettingill.com /writings/BillyStrayhornPart1.htm (677 words)

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		Billy Strayhorn was born on November 29, 1915, in Dayton, Ohio.
		Billy and Lena were having drinks at her apartment when the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor was announced on the radio.
		Strayhorn invited the duo over to his apartment, to make sure that his writing was correct for their respective playing styles and abilities.
	www.jazzsight.com /pages/3/page3.html?refresh=1080016773145 (12486 words)

	Billy Strayhorn: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Only in the last decade has Strayhorn's profile been lifted to a level approaching that of Ellington, where diligent searching of the Strayhorn archives (mainly by David Hajdu [+], author of the excellent Strayhorn bio Lush Life [+]) revealed that Strayhorn's contribution to the Ellington legacy was far more extensive and complex than once thought.
		Strayhorn was alternately content with and frustrated by his second-fiddle status, and he was also one of the few openly gay figures in jazz, which probably added more stress to his life.
		In 1964, Strayhorn was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, aggravated by years of smoking and drinking, and he submitted his last composition, "Blood Count," to the Ellington band while in the hospital.
	music.com /person/billy_strayhorn/1 (649 words)

	Baltimore Afro-American: New biography chronicles the life of composer Billy Strayhorn@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New biography chronicles the life of composer Billy Strayhorn.
		With the publication of "Lush Life," the first biography about the life of composer, orchestrator and pianist Billy Strayhorn, writer David Hadju succeeds in gaining for Mr.
		Strayhorn the acclaim he was never awarded during his life - one lived in the shadow of his bandleader, friend, mentor and father figure, Duke Ellington.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:2811214&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (189 words)

	Strayhorn Home \| Buy Strayhorn Music. © 2003 Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Billy Strayhorn was arranger and occasional second pianist and lyricist with Duke period of the mid 1940's Strayhorn experimented with false modulations and expanded.
		Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, David Hajdu What's silly are the insinuations that Strayhorn didn't get a byline for his work or that he was job of documenting the life of Billy Strayhorn.
		Strayhorn joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the the end of the year Strayhorn had.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strayhorn was one of the few jazzmen who were openly gay, but that’s not the point of this review, it’s about his contribution to the history of jazz.
		Billy Strayhorn was invited to New York by Edward Kennedy Ellington to be his arranger in 1939, a job he held for nearly three decades.
		Strayhorn worked under a complicated agreement that allowed Ellington to take the bows and the credit while the shy composer was relieved to stay out of the limelight.
	www.epinions.com /content_90872254084 (1775 words)

	Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn:Hajdu, David:0374194386:eCampus.com
		Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train", "Lush Life", and "Something to Live For".
		Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by another great composer: his employer, friend, and collaborator, Duke Ellington, with whom he worked as the Ellington Orchestra's ace songwriter and arranger.
		Strayhorn was alternately relieved to be kept out of the limelight and frustrated about it.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0374194386 (270 words)

	Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
		The young pianist and composer Billy Strayhorn was introduced to Duke Ellington, already a major international star and leader of one of the world's most popular bands, for the first time backstage at an Ellington Orchestra performance at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh in December 1938.
		Equally as important, Duke was the personification of Strayhorn's youthful daydreams of urban sophistication and elegance, a milieu Strayhorn was only able to imagine in songs like “Lush Life,” the ultimate paean to cafe society, penned, amazingly, when he was just twenty-one.
		Strayhorn, though, was seldom given a publishing credit for these co-writing duties, and when his own originals became part of the orchestra's songbook, Ellington often took a co-composer's credit, a practice common among bandleaders in this period.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1348 (897 words)

	Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 31
		Herforth became the boyhood best friend of Strayhorn who was born in Dayton in 1915 and later became a composer, arranger, pianist and alter ego to Duke Ellington.
		A man Strayhorn had met at the drug store where he was working arranged for the young piano player to meet Ellington who immediately asked him to play.
		Strayhorn became an indispensable part of the Duke Ellington American jazz saga and a legend among musicians.
	www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz31.htm (1236 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Billy Strayhorn
		Four more of Strayhorn's pieces were recorded during 1939 including I'm Checkin' Out, Goo'm Bye and Grievin' by Ellington, and Barney Goin' Easy and Lost in Two Flats by Barney Bigard, as well as a work by Ellington written as a tribute, Weely (a Portrait of Billy Strayhorn).
		The two men were so attuned to one another musically, and Strayhorn's work was such a perfect complement to Ellington's, that it is now impossible to establish the exact extent of the former's contribution to Ellington's oeuvre.
		Strayhorn was a technically fluent pianist and made a notable contribution to several small-group recordings by various of Ellington's sidemen, including Cootie Williams (1939), Bigard (1939-40), Johnny Hodges (1939,1947, 1956-8), the Ellingtonians (1950), the Coronets (1950-51), Louie Bellson (1952), Ben Webster (1954), and Clark Terry (1957).
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_strayhorn_billy.htm (426 words)

	Billy Strayhorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In early 1939 the Ellington band recorded Strayhorn's "Something to Live For" with Strayhorn at the piano, and three more of his compositions were recorded later that year.
		Soon Strayhorn was associate arranger and alternate pianist with the Ellington band.
		The Ellington theme song, "Take the 'A' Train," is a Strayhorn composition, and Strayhorn composed or collaborated on more than 200 recorded works in the Ellington repertoire, plus hundreds of others that have never been recorded.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.maner/stray01.htm (164 words)

	Billy Strayhorn
		During his lifetime, William Strayhorn (1915-1967) was generally regarded of as merely the most prodigious of Duke Ellington's small staff of assistants.
		Billy Strayhorn Manuscript Editions is an initiative of Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc., and musicologist Walter van de Leur.
		Part of our mission is to provide orchestras and researchers with authoritative scholarly editions of Billy Strayhorn's music, drawn directly from his original handwritten scores, rather than transcribed from existing recordings.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/strayhorn_billy.htm (550 words)

	Historical richness, aesthetic power of Billy Strayhorn’s jazz coming to life at University
		The biography is studded with references to Strayhorn compositions that were never recorded or published, from youthful oddities that sound “like a grade school valentine set to the music of an Eastern European dirge,” to truly important works by this witty and lush mind.
		While Strayhorn is popularly honored as Ellington’s muse and a brilliant collaborator, these scores will allow us to see and study Billy Strayhorn, the composer, in a way that has not been possible until now.
		Hajdu pointed out that Strayhorn was a teen-ager when he started writing Lush Life–with its lyrics of places “where one relaxes on the axis/Of the wheel of life/To get the feel of life/From jazz and cocktails”–and finished it somewhere in between 1936 and 1937, when he was still working as a soda jerk in Pittsburgh.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /030320/strayhorn.shtml (1047 words)

	CMT.com : Billy Strayhorn : Biography
		Only in the last decade has Strayhorn's profile been lifted to a level approaching that of Ellington, where diligent searching of the Strayhorn archives (mainly by David Hajdu, author of the excellent Strayhorn bio Lush Life) revealed that Strayhorn's contribution to the Ellington legacy was far more extensive and complex than once thought.
		Even tunes that were listed as Strayhorn's alone have suffered; the proverbial man on the street is likely to tell you that "Take the 'A' Train" -- perhaps Strayhorn's most famous tune -- is a Duke Ellington song.
		Beginning in the 1950s, Strayhorn also took on some projects on his own away from Ellington, including a few solo albums, revues for a New York society called the Copasetics, theatre collaborations with Luther Henderson, and songs for his friend Lena Horne.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/strayhorn_billy/bio.jhtml (508 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Something to Live for: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Those with a basic knowledge of jazz history know the story of Billy Strayhorn: he was Duke Ellington's humble sidekick, a brilliant composer who stood in the famous band leader's shadow for 30 years and whose real contribution to the musical form was not recognized until years after his death in 1967.
		Van de Leur posits that Strayhorn was not merely Ellington's alter ego but a distinctly different composer who had a direct influence on Ellington's music, changing the way it and, in turn, jazz in general was received by both critics and the general public.
		Van de Leur academically addresses the Billy Strayhorn debate (was he an independent composer or a mere apprentice and assistant?), stretching his dissection of songs over more than 10 chapters.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195124480 (1102 words)

	The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions: Introduction
		The Billy Strayhorn Master Editions are printed performance scores and parts derived directly from the handwritten manuscripts of composer and arranger William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn.
		The initial fifty-six Billy Strayhorn Master Editions at the Archive were a collaboration between Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. and Dutch musicologist Walter van de Leur.
		A second set of twenty-six Billy Strayhorn Master Editions was presented to the Chicago Jazz Archive by Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. on March 29, 2003, at a Strayhorn concert by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/cja/strayhornaid.html (277 words)

	PRX » Pieces » Allan Harris: In his own words ... on Billy Strayhorn
		Billy Strayhorn was one of the great American songwriters of the 20th century -- even if few people knew it during his lifetime.
		It was Strayhorn, not his mentor Duke Ellington, who wrote the standards "Take the 'A' Train," "Satin Doll," and "Lush Life." But Strayhorn was fl and openly gay, and he lived his life mostly in Ellington's shadow.
		Harris convinced the Strayhorn family to give him access to previously unrecorded music as he made his all-Strayhorn CD, Love Came.
	www.prx.org /piece/790 (231 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hodges was at the pinnacle of his career and Strayhorn finally got some overdue recognition and lee way to do a fantastic album of covers and originals.
		This disc which is the result of a session in 1961 that features Johhny Hodges on alto sax with Billy Strayhorn as the band leader.
		Briefly, Strayhorn was given free rein in providing new arrangments of songs by Ellington, Hodges and himself.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00000HYIF (299 words)

	University of Chicago to receive, hear newly discovered Billy Strayhorn works
		But Strayhorn is having his year at the University of Chicago: on March 29, a treasure trove of newly discovered compositions will be performed and the scores presented to the University’s Regenstein Library.
		They will be presented by Alyce Clairbaut, Strayhorn’s niece, and performed by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra at “Something to Live For: A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn” at the Museum of Science and Industry.
		Examining Strayhorn and Ellington's ideas before collaboration allows researchers to follow the thought processes of the two composers, then see how they interacted to produce the performance versions.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/03/030326.strayhorn.shtml (578 words)

	The Dutch Jazz Orchestra / Jerry Van Rooijen \| You Go To My Head— Billy Strayhorn and Standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strayhorn infuses these standards with his pristine vision of harmony, one that is at once complex and immediately attainable.
		Strayhorn liked to opine that arranging and composing took the same amount of care, perhaps more being required for arranging.
		Strayhorn showed himself to be a superb craftsman, probably superior to Ellington on his best days.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0502_013.htm (524 words)

	'Johnny Hodges and Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra' by Johnny Hedges from The Portsmouth Chorus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		'Johnny Hodges and Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra' by Johnny Hedges from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		Johnny Hodges and Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra, Johnny Hedges.
		He's accompanied by the Duke Ellington band with Billy Strayhorn replacing Ellington at the piano and the crisp drumming throughout is by Sam Woodyard.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B00000HYIF (445 words)

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