Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn jazz article by Joel Roberts, published on March 8, at All About Jazz. Find more Book Reviews. Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. Billy Strayhorn () was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of . Billy Strayhorn Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote most of the song, which was to become his signature Nat King Cole performed “Lush Life” in , while trumpeter Harry James recorded it four times.
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Lush Life (jazz song)
He has made Strayhorn a living, breathing presence and created of his life a work of real art. Links Jazz Albums Jazz Discographies.
I want a story but I want a “true” story- let’s not get into the postmodern complexities of all that Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. Read on to view our project ideas Very smoothly written, thorough, plenty of great jazz anecdotes. Help us identify the world’s top jazz venues.
Apr 08, Chris rated it it was amazing. An award-winning and nominated bio by author David Hajdu. Music biographies are hard by nature now Only took me five years or so to finish off this one. Dec 12, Constance Chevalier rated it it was amazing. As New in As New dust jacket Edition: Dec 22, Greg rated it it was amazing.
Lush Life (jazz song) – Wikipedia
Anyway, this biography obviously gave me a greater appreciation for the genius of Billy Strayhorn, and it also gave me a greater appreciation for the greatness of Duke Ellington; it also made me go back and listen to ” Billy Strayhorn was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as “Take the ‘A’ Train. My mind just boggled coming up with that analogy.
It’s amazing how much is still not widely known about Strayhorn that was written bjlly this book. Every time I read a reference to a song, a singer, a film score, an event, I then closed the book and took a dive into YouTube or Wikipedia or Google images or Spotify to experience the reference for myself.
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An analogy would be if Salieri had embraced Mozart upon his steayhorn in Vienna, and paid all his bills and gambling debts, while Mozart wrote music for Salieri and pushed Salieri’s musical acumen far beyond what it would have been, all while staying resolutley out of the Court limelight and pursuing his Masonic interests.
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, The question of why Strayhorn remains virtually unknown is not bully by this book-it might not ever be answered to anyone’s satisfaction since it seems Strayhorn was complicit in his anonymity while he was alive. Membership has its privileges. I think it’s fair to hold biographies to a novelistic standard Pegasus Book Orphanage Published: Eventually, though, his compositions moved beyond Ellington’s influence; as he grew increasingly depressed by his obscurity, he transcended the ghost-writing arrangement to achieve his own, dark billu and a small measure of fame.
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Strayhorn had had the freedom to pursue all avenues of musical expression and continue to make a living doing sowe as a nation might have had another important modern American “art music” which I use for lack of a better term, because what he did write was clearly high art composer in addition to one of the great big-band and small ensemble composer-arrangers in history. Is it normal to get lkfe when you get to the part of the bio where the subject inevitably dies?
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 Dec 03, Deborah J.
I picked this book up blography a whim in As well, answers may be filled in.