Billy Strayhorn, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

• Lush Life
• Satin Doll
• Something To Live For
• Take the "A" Train

Research Resources: Billy Strayhorn

• Amazon (publications, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• BillyStrayhorn.com (website devoted to Strayhorn)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list, awards, hit songs, co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Independent Lens / PBS.org (website derived from and devoted to documentary film Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life.
• Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• iTunes (recordings and albums featuring xxx songs)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about or related to the songwriter)
• NPR.org ( interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music)
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History (material from the exhibition Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn Jazz Composers)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• WBEZ.org -- Chicago (Feature: "Duke Ellington's Right Hand Man: Billy Strayhorn")
• Wikipedia (name article)
• James Lincoln Collier, Duke Ellington, New York: Oxford University Press,1987 ()multiple references to Strayhorn).
• John Edward Hasse, Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington, Foreward by Wynton Marsalis, New York: Simon and Schuster 1993 (multiple extended references to Strayhorn).
• Stuart Nicholson, Reminiscing In Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington, Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1999 (multiple extended references to Strayhorn).
• David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn New York: North Pint Press, 1997.
• The Oxford Companion to Jazz, Ed. by Bill Kirchner, Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press: 2000 (multiple references to Strayhorn).
• Warren W. Vaché, The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody, The Scarecrow Press, 2000 (brief Bio.; entry p. 480-481).
• William Zinsser. Easy to Remember The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine, 2001 (several references to Strayhorn).
• Allen Forte, Listening to Classic American Popular Songs, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001 (multiple comments on Strayhorn).
• David Jenness and Don Velsey, Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000, New York: Routledge, 2006 (multiple comments on Strayhorn's music).
• Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (multiple commentaries on Strayhorn).

• Portrait of Billy Strayhorn by Carl Van Vechten: Library of Congress / Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

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