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Lush Life : A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu (1997, Trade Paperback)

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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy 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 in Harlem and Paris. While composing some of the most gorgeous American music of the twentieth century, Strayhorn labored under a complex agreement whereby Ellington took the bows for his work. Until his life was tragically cut short by cancer and alcohol abuse, the small, shy composer carried himself with singular style and grace as one of the few jazzmen to be openly homosexual. Lush Life has sparked an enthusiastic revival of interest in Strayhorn's work and is already acknowledged as a jazz classic.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865475121
ISBN-13
9780865475120
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139259

Product Key Features

Book Title
LUSH Life : a Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Author
David Hajdu
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Lgbt, Ethnic
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ml410.S9325h35
Reviews
" Lush Life is a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life." --Lena Horne "A portrait that is both full and convincing... It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work." -- The New Yorker, A portrait that is both full and convincing . . . It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music., Lush Life is a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life., "Lush Lifeis a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life." --Lena Horne "A portrait that is both full and convincing... It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music." --Jonathan Yardley,The Washington Post Book World "Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work." --The New Yorker, Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work., "Lush Life is a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life." --Lena Horne "A portrait that is both full and convincing... It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work." --The New Yorker, " Lush Life is a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life." -- Lena Horne "A portrait that is both full and convincing . . . It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music." -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work." -- The New Yorker, " Lush Life is a book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life." -Lena Horne "A portrait that is both full and convincing . . . It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World "Hajdu invests his biography of Strayhorn with the kind of sensitivity and clarity which is the mark of his subject's best work." - The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
781.6/55/092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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