Lush Life
A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardBilly 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 friend 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, David Hajdu's Lush Life is a vibrant and absorbing account of the lush life that Strayhorn and other jazz musicians led i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-86547-512-0
- EAN: 9780865475120
- Produktnummer: 9318120
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 338 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.9 cm 452 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 452
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