Portrait
of a Silk Thread
On the average, Billy Strayhorn
wrote at least one piece a week during
all thirty years that he worked with Duke Ellington.
That was more than the Ellington Orchestra could
handle, especially since the Duke himself composed
incessantly. Choices had to be made and thus
many pieces fell by the wayside, never having
appeared on any of Duke's many records.
Among those ill-fated scores
were some of the finest works Strayhorn ever
wrote. Fortunately, the music of Strayhorn has
been preserved for future generations in hundreds
of handwritten scores that are safely stored
in various music collections.
This CD is the first to
document the rich trove of Strayhorn material.
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