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Billy Strayhorn (29 Nov 1915 - 31 May 1967)

Male Person - United States

Works (123)

Arranged

  1. Nutcracker Suite
  2. Nutcracker Suite: Overture
  3. Nutcracker Suite: Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes)
  4. Nutcracker Suite: Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
  5. Nutcracker Suite: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
  6. Nutcracker Suite: Entr'acte
  7. Nutcracker Suite: The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance)
  8. Nutcracker Suite: Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance)
  9. Nutcracker Suite: Danse of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
  10. Nutcracker Suite: Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)
  11. Duke Ellington Fantasy

Wrote

  1. Boo-Dah
  2. Wounded Love
  3. I'm Checking Out, Go'om Bye
  4. I Don't Mind
  5. "A" Train
  6. Once Upon a Dream
  7. Esquire Swank
  8. Take the A-Train
  9. Kissing Bug
  10. Hey, Buddy Bolden
  11. Orson
  12. Strange Feeling
  13. A Christmas Surprise
  14. Grievin'
  15. Your Love Has Faded

Composed

  1. Lush Life (1933 - 1938)
  2. Take the “A” Train (1939)
  3. Chelsea Bridge (1941)
  4. Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’ (1941)
  5. Day Dream (1941)
  6. Happy Go Lucky Local (1946)
  7. Satin Doll (1953)
  8. Imagine My Frustration (1965)
  9. Blood Count (1967)
  10. Take the “A” Train
  11. Bugle Breaks
  12. Passion Flower
  13. Take the “A” Train
  14. Lush Life
  15. Dra med Krøderbanen
  16. Festival Suite: Part III. Newport Up
  17. Blood Count
  18. Drawing Room Blues
  19. Clementine
  20. Balcony Serenade
  21. Strange Feeling
  22. After All
  23. Lament for Javanette
  24. Violet Blue
  25. Brown Betty
  26. Overture to a Jam Session, Parts 1 & 2
  27. B D B
  28. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)
  29. Isfahan
  30. Depk
  31. Maybe
  32. A Midnight in Paris
  33. Something to Live For
  34. Suite Strayhorn: I. Chelsea Bridge
  35. Suite Strayhorn: II. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  36. Suite Strayhorn
  37. Take the “A” Train
  38. The Eighth Veil
  39. You’re the One
  40. My Little Brown Book
  41. SNIBOR
  42. Raincheck
  43. Self Portrait (of the Bean)
  44. Take the “A” Train
  45. Lotus Blossom
  46. Tonk
  47. All Day Long
  48. Midriff
  49. Island Virgin
  50. Pretty Girl
  51. The Star-Crossed Lovers
  52. The Perfume Suite
  53. Such Sweet Thunder
  54. Madness in Great Ones
  55. Upper Manhattan Medical Group
  56. Lush Life
  57. All Heart
  58. 3:10 Blues
  59. Intimacy of the Blues
  60. Chalmeau
  61. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  62. Lush Life (Intro)
  63. Dirge
  64. Stomp (Johnny Come Lately)
  65. The New Look (Snibor)
  66. Misfit Blues
  67. Schwiphti
  68. Zweet Zurzday
  69. Lay-By
  70. Lotus Blossom
  71. Smada
  72. Sweet and Pungent
  73. Blues in Orbit
  74. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
  75. Tourist Point of View
  76. Mount Harissa
  77. Agra
  78. Amad
  79. Festival Suite: Part II. Blues to Be There
  80. Festival Suite: Part I. Festival Junction
  81. Festival Suite
  82. Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note
  83. Lament for Javanette
  84. Take the “A” Train
  85. Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters
  86. Rain Check

Lyrics

  1. Lush Life (1933 - 1938)
  2. Imagine My Frustration (1965)
  3. Lush Life (Intro)
  4. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  5. Maybe
  6. Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Ancestry / All Heart / Beyond Category / Total Jazz
  7. The E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke)
  8. Something to Live For
  9. Suite Strayhorn: II. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  10. You’re the One

Dedicated Works

  1. Black Orchid