Lush Life A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Name: Lush Life A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
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ISBN: 9780865475120

ISBN-10: 0865475121

ISBN-13: 9780865475120

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Authors: David Hajdu, Jeffrey Seroy

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Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) 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." Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by his fri and collaborator Duke Ellington, with whom he worked for three decades as the Ellington Orchestra's ace songwriter and arranger.A "definitive" corrective (USA Today) to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz, Lush Life is a vibrant and absorbing account of the "lush life" Strayhorn and other jazz musicians led in Harlem and Paris. While composing some of the most gorgeous…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.17" wide x 9.17" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

David Hajdu is the author of the award-winning "Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn" (FSG, 1996, North Point Press, 1997). Lately he has written for "The New York Times Magazine", "The New York Review of Books"; & "Vanity Fair". He lives in New York City.