Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

Premiered February 6, 2007

Directed by

Rob Levi

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About the Documentary

As Duke Ellington’s co-composer, arranger, and right-hand man, Billy Strayhorn wrote some of the greatest American music of the 20th century.  But as a gay man in the ’40s and ’50s, Strayhorn had to lead a discreet existence, while Ellington played to thunderous applause on center stage.