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Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. Having a recording session for Columbia at 30th street studio, New York, 1962

2021-03-17
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Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington having a recording session for Columbia at 30th street studio, New York, 1962.

Billy Strayhorn (by name William Thomas Strayhorn) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. Strayhorn said that his grandmother was his primary influence during the first ten years of his life. He became interested in music while living with her, playing hymns on her piano, and playing records on her Victrola record player.

b. November 29, 1915 in Dayton, Ohio.
d. May 31, 1967 in New York.

Duke Ellington (by name Edward Kennedy “Duke“ Ellington) was an American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
At age seven, Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him elegance. His childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner and dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, so they began calling him "Duke". Ellington credited his friend Edgar McEntee for the nickname: "I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So he called me Duke.

b. April 29, 1899 in Washington DC.
d. May 24, 1974 in New York.

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