Wednesday, November 23 at 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Jazz Café at Music Hall, 350 Madison St, Detroit, Michigan 48226
The PD9 has been paying tribute to the music of Billy Strayhorn for 4 years now & this year we have even more to celebrate as we now have a CD of his material about to come out on Gretchen Valade's Detroit Music Factory label! We will celebrate that release at the Jazz Café at Music Hall at this event, five days before his actual birthday!
If you are familiar with the jazz composition, "Take the A Train," then you know something about not only Duke Ellington, but also Billy "Sweet Pea" Strayhorn, its composer. Strayhorn joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the age of twenty-two. Ellington liked what he saw in Billy and took this shy, talented pianist under his wings. Neither one was sure what Strayhorn's function in ...the band would be, but their musical talents had attracted each other. By the end of the year Strayhorn had become essential to the Duke Ellington Band; arranging, composing, sitting-in at the piano. Billy made a rapid and almost complete assimilation of Ellington's style and technique. It was difficult to discern where one's style ended and the other's began. The results of the Ellington-Strayhorn collaboration brought much joy to the jazz world.
Reeds: Justin Jozwiak, Jim Holden & Goode Wuche III, brass: James O'Donnell, Ken Ferry & Tbone Paxton, rhythm: Michael Zaporski, Shannon Wade & RJ Spangler, wsg Camille Price on vocals
http://www.billystrayhorn.com/1997/biography.htm
Wednesday, November 23 at 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Jazz Café at Music Hall, 350 Madison St, Detroit, Michigan 48226
The PD9 has been paying tribute to the music of Billy Strayhorn for 4 years now & this year we have even more to celebrate as we now have a CD of his material about to come out on Gretchen Valade's Detroit Music Factory label! We will celebrate that release at the Jazz Café at Music Hall at this event, five days before his actual birthday!
If you are familiar with the jazz composition, "Take the A Train," then you know something about not only Duke Ellington, but also Billy "Sweet Pea" Strayhorn, its composer. Strayhorn joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the age of twenty-two. Ellington liked what he saw in Billy and took this shy, talented pianist under his wings. Neither one was sure what Strayhorn's function in ...the band would be, but their musical talents had attracted each other. By the end of the year Strayhorn had become essential to the Duke Ellington Band; arranging, composing, sitting-in at the piano. Billy made a rapid and almost complete assimilation of Ellington's style and technique. It was difficult to discern where one's style ended and the other's began. The results of the Ellington-Strayhorn collaboration brought much joy to the jazz world.
Reeds: Justin Jozwiak, Jim Holden & Goode Wuche III, brass: James O'Donnell, Ken Ferry & Tbone Paxton, rhythm: Michael Zaporski, Shannon Wade & RJ Spangler, wsg Camille Price on vocals
http://www.billystrayhorn.com/1997/biography.htm