Duke Ellington once referred to Billy Strayhorn as “my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.” The collaboration between Duke ...

Pianist/composer/arranger/producer John J. DiMartino is a first-call veteran of the New York City jazz scene. This multi-recorded artist has long been a favorite of ...

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life: Independent Lens documentary, with Dulé Hill, Dianne Reeves, Mercer Ellington, Bill Charlap, Elvis Costello. Directed by Robert Levi. 11 p.m. Tuesday on KQED. While there ...

Know jazz? Then you know "Take the 'A' Train." The classic Billy Strayhorn tune, which the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band is now swatting around like a badminton birdie, from tenor sax to trumpet to ...

The Auditorium Theatre lost its holiday staple when the Joffrey Ballet moved to the Lyric Opera House in 2021. But that beautiful, gold-trimmed venue in the Loop may have a new winner with “Sugar Hill ...

Kelly Strayhorn Theater will invite audiences to experience a sizzling new take on the art of KST’s legendary namesakes at SUITE LIFE: A Celebration of Billy Strayhorn & Gene Kelly. This year’s annual ...

THIS year marks the centenary of one of the great unsung heroes of jazz history, a man who was also half (and sometimes, arguably, more than that) of one of the greatest musical partnerships of the ...

This stirring dance number, as recorded on Feb. 15, 1941, marked Strayhorn’s breakthrough as a composer. Opening or closing countless concerts with it, Ellington made it his band’s signature tune.

Frank Sinatra and Billy Strayhorn have more in common than it may seem. (Photos via Getty Images) He would have turned 100 this Saturday, and writers and historians have been scrambling over the past ...