On the occasion of Billy Strayhorn’s 110th birthday, The Hairpin Turn celebrates the life and work of one of jazz’s great geniuses. Strayhorn’s career is inextricably linked to that of Duke Ellington. With the exception of a two-year period in the early 1950s and a single solo album recorded in 1961, all of Strayhorn’s surviving [...]<a class="btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link" href="https://wp.eastsidefm.org/podcast/eastside-radio-jazz-billy-strayhorn-duke-ellington/">Read More... from The Quiet Genius of Billy Strayhorn</a>

On the occasion of Billy Strayhorn’s 110th birthday, The Hairpin Turn celebrates the life and work of one of jazz’s great geniuses. Strayhorn’s career is inextricably linked to that of Duke Ellington. With the exception of a two-year period in the early 1950s and a single solo album recorded in 1961, all of Strayhorn’s surviving [...]Read More... from The Quiet Genius of Billy Strayhorn

On the occasion of Billy Strayhorn’s 110th birthday, The Hairpin Turn celebrates the life and work of one of jazz’s great geniuses. Strayhorn’s career is inextricably linked to that of Duke Ellington. With the exception of a two-year period in the early 1950s and a single solo album recorded in 1961, all of Strayhorn’s surviving [...]<a href="https://wp.eastsidefm.org/podcast/eastside-radio-jazz-billy-strayhorn-duke-ellington/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read More... from The Quiet Genius of Billy Strayhorn</a>

The Quiet Genius of Billy Strayhorn

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