Black Music and Black Muses

Black Music and Black Muses

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Black Music and Black Muses
Black Music and Black Muses
Billy Strayhorn, 1967

Billy Strayhorn, 1967

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Jan 19, 2024
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I’m sharing an interview Billy Strayhorn did for Downbeat’s 1967 composers issue. It’s about working, studying, thinking up the dreams as they are happening, conjuring, and ecstasies of practical magic in the collaborations between him and Duke Ellington. Archives are important and I’ll be sharing more here this year and beyond so that this feels like one.

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