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Died. Billy Strayhorn, 51, jazz composer and Duke Ellington's strong-though all but invisible-right hand for all these years, who composed such hits as Chelsea Bridge, Johnny Come Lately, and Take the A Train, all of which were commonly identified with Ellington alone; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...audience cackles, and Pianist Weston and group are off on High Fly. Manhattan's Five Spot Cafe, where this recording was made, apparently attracts some of the most indefatigable gabblers on the club circuit, but what cuts across the vocal static is well worth listening to, especially Billy Strayhorn's Star Crossed Lovers (the only tune not by Weston), a plaintive exercise for sax and piano...
...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
Duke Ellington Plays the Blues (Victor, 8 sides). Some good, but not the best, Ellington, with the Duke and Arranger Billy Strayhorn taking turns at the piano in Drawing Room Blues. Also Memphis Blues, Transblucency, Beale Street Blues and St. Louis Blues. Recording: fair...
Elizabeth Strayhorn was assistant to the commandant at the Fort Oglethorpe WAC training center until the commandant got another job and she took over...