Billy Strayhorn - A Legend in Jazz

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	"....Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine." - Duke Ellington
	"Strayhorn is like Beethoven--every note he wrote seems inevitable." - Cliff Colnot, Resident Conductor, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
	" It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing" - Benny Carter
	"All those sevenths --- man, I never heard anything like those things until him." - Dizzy Gillespie
	"That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did." - Gil Evans
	"Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers." - Quincy Jones
	"When Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away..." - Gerry Mulligan