Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn collections

cedar · November 19th, 2012, 01:54 PM

Can anyone recommend a fake book consisting solely of Duke Ellington and/or Billy Strayhorn tunes?

I am a pianist and have plenty of fake books (and Real Books), but I still feel that there are plenty of their tunes (and not just the obscure ones) that I'm missing.

Are there any relatively large collections out there? Considering how prolific they were, I don't expect any one book to be comprehensive, of course, but I'm surprised that my internet searches have not uncovered much at all.

indigo_dave · November 19th, 2012, 05:44 PM

I recently ordered "Billy Strayhorn: An American Master" from amazon. It's a nice collection with I think 17 songs. Nice voicings. Strayhorn is one of the greatest unrecognized American musicians of the 20th century. I guess Duke Ellington recognized his talent. I have a personal theory that the greatest of Al Hibbler's (a singer who worked for Duke for about 11 years) arrangements
were done by Strayhorn.

cedar · November 20th, 2012, 01:54 PM

That collection is the only one I found that gathers a bunch of Strayhorn tunes in one place. But I would have thought that there would be at least a dozen such books out there, devoted solely to Ellington and/or Strayhorn.

I'm shocked that I haven't found any others yet.

November 19th, 2012, 01:54 PM	#1
cedar Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 382	Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn collections Can anyone recommend a fake book consisting solely of Duke Ellington and/or Billy Strayhorn tunes? I am a pianist and have plenty of fake books (and Real Books), but I still feel that there are plenty of their tunes (and not just the obscure ones) that I'm missing. Are there any relatively large collections out there? Considering how prolific they were, I don't expect any one book to be comprehensive, of course, but I'm surprised that my internet searches have not uncovered much at all.

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November 19th, 2012, 05:44 PM	#2
indigo_dave Registered User Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 41	I recently ordered "Billy Strayhorn: An American Master" from amazon. It's a nice collection with I think 17 songs. Nice voicings. Strayhorn is one of the greatest unrecognized American musicians of the 20th century. I guess Duke Ellington recognized his talent. I have a personal theory that the greatest of Al Hibbler's (a singer who worked for Duke for about 11 years) arrangements were done by Strayhorn.

November 20th, 2012, 01:54 PM	#3
cedar Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 382	That collection is the only one I found that gathers a bunch of Strayhorn tunes in one place. But I would have thought that there would be at least a dozen such books out there, devoted solely to Ellington and/or Strayhorn. I'm shocked that I haven't found any others yet.