For the Record
Billy Strayhorn musical: In the Calendar section elsewhere in this edition, a list of theater openings gives the title of the new musical about jazz pianist and composer Billy Strayhorn at Matrix Theatre as “Lush Life.”
Nov. 13, 2016
Books
*** 1/2, STAN GETZ, “A Life in Jazz: A Musical Autobiography,” Verve; *** 1/2, BILLY STRAYHORN, “Lush Life: The Billy Strayhorn Song Book,” Verve
June 30, 1996
Entertainment & Arts
For the last half century at least, musicians and historians alike have considered Duke Ellington to be one of the greatest jazz composers for a body of work that began in 1920s Harlem and ended up on concert stages across the world.
Oct. 3, 2018
To jazz fans, Billy Strayhorn is a much-admired but enigmatic figure whose name is inevitably linked with that of Duke Ellington.
July 14, 1996
You have to believe that Billy Strayhorn would have loved “Lush Life -- the Music of Billy Strayhorn” at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on Friday night (also presented on Saturday and Sunday).
April 23, 2007
Music
Somewhere tonight a band will play “Take the A Train,” and odds are most people in the room will think that Duke Ellington wrote the tune that was his famous theme.
Sept. 8, 1991
Real Estate
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has officially beat it out of Beverly Hills, selling his home of about eight years for $3.9 million.
June 6, 2017
Randy Weston & Billy Harper: A musical partnership that began in the early ‘70s, Randy Weston and Billy Harper come together again on the aptly titled “The Roots of the Blues,” a magnetic duet between Weston’s piano and Harper’s lush and lingering saxophone.
Nov. 21, 2013
Jazz picks: Austin Peralta remembered, Randy Weston and more
The man who founded the famously ill-fated Fyre Festival plans to tell his story in a self-published memoir.
May 6, 2019