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Jacob Roved Quintet: Remembering Billy Strayhorn
by Jakob Baekgaard
Rock music has its fair share of musical collaborations, among others, the partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles. Jazz, however, also has its own canon of collaborators and at the top of the list is the duo of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. No one disputes the groundbreaking role of Duke Ellington in jazz history, but, sometimes, the influence of his partner Strayhorn is not emphasized enough. He was an original composer and ...
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