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Hack · 04-09-2010, 04:28 PM

http://www.billystrayhorn.com/biography.htm

Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer. Worked a great deal with Duke Ellington. If you know "Take the A Train," you know Billy Strayhorn. He composed "Take the A Train" based on the lyrical quality of Duke Ellington's voice on the telephone, as Ellington gave him directions to his house in Harlem.

I am a huge, huge jazz fan...and a major fan of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.

A sidenote: Ellington was heterosexual. In an interview I saw with his daughter, she acknowledged the close friendship between her father and Strayhorn, saying they were as close as two men could be and not actually be lovers.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY"]YouTube- Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"[/nomedia]

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04-09-2010, 04:28 PM	#17
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,776 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	http://www.billystrayhorn.com/biography.htm Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer. Worked a great deal with Duke Ellington. If you know "Take the A Train," you know Billy Strayhorn. He composed "Take the A Train" based on the lyrical quality of Duke Ellington's voice on the telephone, as Ellington gave him directions to his house in Harlem. I am a huge, huge jazz fan...and a major fan of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. A sidenote: Ellington was heterosexual. In an interview I saw with his daughter, she acknowledged the close friendship between her father and Strayhorn, saying they were as close as two men could be and not actually be lovers. [nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY"]YouTube- Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"[/nomedia]