Billy Strayhorn

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Billy Strayhorn: References & Edit History

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Assorted References

partnership with Ellington
- In Duke Ellington: Masterworks and popular songs of the 1930s and ’40s

Additional Reading

David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (1996).

Article Contributors

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 27, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 10, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 25, 2023
	Deleted Web site: Billy Strayhorn.	Yamini Chauhan	Oct 15, 2013
	Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Billy Strayhorn.	Deepti Mahajan	Jan 20, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 27, 1999