Word: strayhorn
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...songs written by composers ranging from Duke Ellington to Kris Kristofferson. The record is really a tribute to one particular composer, though. The liner notes call the album "a prayer -- a private, sacred promise to a lost love." That love is for Horne's great friend Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington's composing partner, who died...
...midtown Manhattan restaurant, long past lunchtime, Horne looks $ exquisitely beautiful under a big straw hat, without a line to mar her fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington...
...flexible standard becomes a little restrictive by the early '50s, < when Cole turned more and more toward often wonderfully arranged orchestrations by Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Pete Rugolo and others. One of the Mosaic set's standout cuts is Cole's benchmark version, arranged by Rugolo, of Billy Strayhorn's great ballad of fantasy, loneliness and longing, Lush Life. There is also Nature Boy -- no getting away from that -- and such toothsome novelties as four duets with Johnny Mercer, including the memorably titled Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat...
...away in a little less than seven years. That is why a number of states also tack on additional years for the use of a firearm during a crime. Some states, like Illinois and Maryland, have created a penalty of life without parole. That means, says Chicago Judge Earl Strayhorn, "a person goes in alive and comes out dead...