by David Hajdu
“Let’s Have a Ball”
Levitas, Willard
Lewis, John
“Life Is Lonely,” see “Lush Life”
“Like a Ship in the Night”
“Lillian”
Lincoln Center; Jazz Orchestra
Liszt, Franz
Little Troc cocktail lounge (Los Angeles)
Living Room (Paris)
Logan, Arthur
Logan, Chip
Logan, Marian
“Looking for a Male”
Look magazine
Lorca, Federico García
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Tribune
“Lotus Blossom”
“Love Has Passed Me By, Again”
“Love Is Here to Stay”
“Love Like This Can’t Last”
“Lovelinessence”
“Love Me or Leave Me”
Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in Their Garden, The (Lorca)
“Lover Man”
Luckey’s Rendezvous (New York)
Ludwig, Bill
“Lullaby in Rhythm”
“Lush Life”
Lyons, Jimmy
Lyttelton, Humphrey
McCarthy, Mary
McCuen, Brad
Macero, Teo
Machito
Machiz, Herbert
McNair, Barbara
McPartland, Marian
McPhail, Jimmy
McRae, Carmen
McVicker, Carl
“Madam Zajj”
Mad Hatters
“Madness in Great Ones”
“Main Stem”
Malone, Buddy
“Mambo Italiano”
Manning, Willy
Manos, Christopher
Mara, Countess
Marceau, Marcel
March on Washington
Mars Club (Paris)
Marshall, Wendell
Martin, Herbert
Martin, Mary
Mary Poppins (film)
Masterpieces by Ellington (album)
Matlovsky, Samuel
Matz, Peter
Maxwell, Jimmy
May, Billy
Mayan Theatre (Los Angeles)
“Maybe”
“Maybe I Should Change My Ways”
Mayer, Charles “Buzz”
Mays, Willie
“Me Is the Trouble”
Mercer, Johnny
Mercer Records
Merenda, Joe
Merrill, James
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Opera
Miami Herald
“Mid-Riff”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare)
Miley, Bubber
Miller, Glenn
Miller, Mitch
Mills, Irving
Mine Boy (Abrahams)
Mingus, Charles
Minor, James “Honey Boy”
Minton’s Playhouse (Harlem)
Mitchell, Dwike
Mitropoulos, Dmitri
Modern Jazz Quartet
Monici, Jimmy
Monk, Thelonious
Montana bar (Paris)
Monterey Jazz Festival
“Mood Indigo”
“Mood to Be Wooed, The”
Moon Is Blue, The (film)
“Moonlight Cocktail”
“Moonlight Fiesta”
Moonlight Harbor Band
“Moon River”
Moore, Phil
Moore, Tommie
Mordecai, Joyce
Morgen, Joe
Morgenstern, Dan
Morris, Gregory
Moskendric family
Mulligan, Gerry
“Multicolored Blue”
Murder at the Vanities (film)
Murray, Rosalind
Music for Moderns (concert)
Musicians Protective Union
Music Is My Mistress (Ellington)
Myers, John Bernard
Myers, LeRoy
“My Little Brown Book”
My People (Ellington)
Nancy, Ray
Nanton, Joe
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Neal, Dorcas
Neal, Frank
Neal Salon
New England Conservatory
Newman, Paul
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport Jazz Festival Suite, The
New School for Social Research
Newsweek
New World A-Comin’ (Ellington)
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal American
New York Times
New York University
New York World-Telegram
“Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A”
Nixon’s Grand Theatre (Philadelphia)
Norgran records
North by Southwest Suite, The (Strayhorn)
Northwestern University
Narvo, Red
Nugent, Pete
Nutcracker Suite, The (Tchaikovsky)
Oceanliner nightclub (New Jersey)
O’Connor, Norman J.
O’Hara, Frank
“Oh, Lady Be Good”
“Oink”
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Oliver, Sy
Olympia jazz club (Paris)
On the Riviera (Copasetics)
“On the Sunny Side of the Street”
“Ool-Ya-Coo”
“Oo, You Make Me Tingle”
“Orson”
Oshei, Bernard
“Overture to a Jam Session”
Pagan, Gustavia Goldberg
Paramount Pictures
Paris Blue Notes
Paris Blues (movie)
Parker, Charlie
Parks, Gordon
Parrish, Mitchell
Parsons, Louella
“Passion Flower”
Patterson, Bill
Patterson, Thomas
Peaceful Side (album)
Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg)
Pemberton, Bill
Pennebaker Productions
“Pentonsilic”
Pepper’s Warehouse (Winston-Salem)
“Perdido”
Perelman, David
Perfume Suite (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Perrin, Mimi
Peters, Brock
Peterson, Oscar
Peterson, Ralph E.
Pharr, Margieriete
Pharr, Nye
Phelan, Michael
Picasso, Pablo
“Pig Sty”
Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team
Pittsburgh Musical Institute
Pleasant, Marie
Poitier, Sidney
Popwell, Albert
Porgy and Bess (film)
Porter, Cole
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Powell, Bud
“Prelude to a Kiss”
Preminger, Hope
Preminger, Otto
Preston, Luther “Slim”
“Pretty Girl”
“Pretty Little One”
Procope, Russell
Purcell, Jack
“Purple People”
Pyle, Mame
“Pyramid”
Pythian Temple (New York)
Quaker City Jazz Festival
Radio Recorders
Redo, Alexandre
Rage of Paris, The (film)
“Rain Check”
Ramirez, Ram
Randalls Island Jazz Festival
Randolph, Jimmie
Rape of Lucretia, The (Britten)
Ratigan, Jimmy
Raucci, Frank
Ravel, Maurice
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Ray, Charlie
Ray, Nicholas
RCA Records
Reddon, Pauline
“Red Roses for a Blue Lady”
Reed, Barbara
Reis, Helen
“Remember”
Remick, Lee
“Reminiscing in Tempo”
Reprise Records
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
“Rhumbop”
“Rhythm Man, The”
Richard III (Shakespeare)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
Ringside jazz club (Paris)
Rite of Spring (Stravinsky)
Ritz-Carlton Hotel (Boston)
Rivel, Moune de
Rivers, Larry
Riverside Drive Five
Riverside Records
Riviera Terrace Room (New York)
Roach, Max
Road of the Phoebe Snow (ballet)
Robbins, Fred
Robbins, Jerome
Robbins Music
Robbins Nest (radio program)
Roberts, Charles Luckeyth “Luckey”
Roberts, Henry “Phace”
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles”
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Rachel
Rockets, The
“Rocks in My Bed”
Rodgers, Richard
Rodney, Red
Rogers, Timmie
Rooney, Mickey
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt Theater (Pittsburgh)
Rose-Colored Glasses (Strayhorn and Henderson)
Ross, Annie
Roulette Records
Rowles, Jimmy
Royal, Marshall
Ruff, Willie
Rugolo, Pete
Rushing, Connie
Rushing, Jimmy
Salle Pleyel (Paris)
Salvaterra, Bruno
Salzman, Harry
Sanders, John
“Satin Doll”
Saturday Laughter (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Saturday Review
Saugatuck Jazz Festival
Savory Ballroom (Pittsburgh)
“Savoy Strut”
Scarface (film)
Schallert, Ed
Schoenberg, Loren
Schweitzer, Albert
Scott, Hazel
Scrima, Michael (Mickey)
Sebastian’s Cotton Club (Culver City, Calif.)
Sebree, Charles
“Sepia Panorama”
Shakespeare, William
Shamrock Lounge (Miami Beach)
Shaw, Artie
Shaw, Eddie
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Sam
“She”
Sheldon, Dean
Sher, Jack
Sherman Brothers
Sherrill, Joya
Shoemaker, Roy
Short, Bobby
“Show “Em You Got Class”
Showman’s Cafe (Harlem)
Shulman, Joe
Silvestri, Silvestri
Simmons, Art
Sinatra, Frank
“Smada”
Small’s Paradise (Harlem)
Smith, Art
Smith, Elwood
Smith, Oliver
Smith, Willie
Smith, Wonderful
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
“Smoky City”
“Snibor”
Snookie’s jazz club (New York)
“Sob Sisters, The”
“Solitude”
“Something to Live For”
“Song for Christmas, A”
“Song of India”
“Song of the Fool”
“Sonnet in Search of a Moor”
“Sonnet to Hank Cinq”
“Sono”
“Sophisticated Lady”
“So the Good Book Says”
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Spangler, Frank
Spangler, Thelma
“Sprite Music”
Stanley Theatre (Pittsburgh)
“Star-Crossed Lovers. The”
“Star Dust”
Starlight Lounge (Las Vegas)
State Department, U.S.
Staton, Fred
Steinbeck, John
Stevens, James “Steve”
Stewart, James
Stewart, Rex
“Still in Love with You”
Stitt, John
Storyville nightclub (Boston)
Strand Records
Strand Theatre (New York)
Strange, Harold
“Strange Feeling”
Stratford Music Festival
Stravinsky, Igor
Strayhorn, Billy: arrangements by, see specific works; and ASCAP ban; birth of; Bridgers and; and Broadway show; cancer of; childhood of; in civil rights movement; classicism of; Clooney and; and Cole’s recording of “Lush Life”; compositions by, see specific works; concert by; concert in tribute to; in Copasetics; death of; debut work for Ellington Orchestra; develops interest in jazz; drinking of; drugstore job of; duets with Ellington; education of; Ellington as role model for; and Ellington’s publicity; estate of; family background of; family ties of; and film scores; Fitzgerald and; gains reputation as arranger; Gershwin’s influence on; Goldberg and; Grove and; Henderson’s proposed collaboration with; at Hickory House; hired by Ellington; and Hodges’s recordings; in Hollywood; homosexuality of; Horne and; independent theater projects of; interview with Ellington and; introduced to Ellington; at jazz festivals; in Logans’ social circle; as lyricist; and Mahalia Jackson recording; memorial service for; on Middle East tour; and Mine Boy project; in mixed-race trio; moves to New York; mugging of; and musical revues; nature of collaboration with Ellington; in Neal Salon; negotiates new relationship with Ellington; nickname of; in Paris; philosophy of life of; plays piano with Ellington Orchestra; publication of works by; and Shakespeare project; shopping by; Sinatra and; singers influenced by; and small bands; solo album of; and Steinbeck project; as studio musician; Tchaikovsky and; and television special; Welles and; Wood in composing partnership with; during World War II
Strayhorn, Georgia (aunt)
Strayhorn, Georgia (sister), see Conaway, Georgia Strayhorn
Strayhorn, Harry (brother)
Strayhorn, James (father)
Strayhorn, James, Jr. “Jimmy” (brother)
Strayhorn, Jobe (grandfather)
Strayhorn, John (brother)
Strayhorn, Joseph (uncle)
Strayhorn, Julia (aunt)
Strayhorn, Larry (nephew)
Strayhorn, Leslie (brother)
Strayhorn, Lillian (sister), see Dicks, Lillian Strayhorn
Strayhorn, Lillian Young (mother)
Strayhorn, Lizzie (grandmother)
Strayhorn, Sadie (sister)
Strayhorn, Samuel (brother)
Strayhorn, Theodore (brother)
Strayhorn, William (uncle)
Studio One (television program)
Stump and Stumpy
“Subtle Slough”
Such Sweet Thunder (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Sudan nightclub (Harlem)
“Sugar Hill Penthouse”
Suite for the Duo (Strayhorn)
Suite Thursday (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Sullivan, Ed
“Sunday Morning”
“Sun-Tanned Tenth of the Nation”
“Sweet Sue”
Sweet Thursday (Steinbeck)
Syms, Sylvia
“Take It Away”
“Take the ‘A’ Train”
“Tapioca”
“Tattooed Bride, The”
Taturn, Art
Taylor, Billy
Taylor, Creed
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilych
“Telecasters, The”
Temperley, Joe
Tempo Music, Inc.
temps court, Le (Time Runs) (Welles)
&nbs
p; Terry, Clark
“That’s the Blues, Old Man”
Theater Guild (New York)
“There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Johnny
Thornhill, Claude
Threepenny Opera, The (Weill and Brecht)
“Three Shows Nightly”
Time magazine
Tizol, Juan
Todd, Michael
Tone Parallel to Harlem, A (Ellington and Strayhorn)
“Tonight I Shall Sleep (with a Smile on My Face)”
“Tonk”
“Total Jazz”
Town Hall (New York)
Townsend, Irving
Tripp, C. A.
“True Confessions”
Turner, Joe
Turner, Lana
Turn of the Screw, The (Britten)
Tuskegee Airmen
“Tuxedo Junction”
“Two Sleepy People”
Two Zephyrs
Tynan, John
Tynes, Margaret
“Ugly Ducklin’”
Ulanov, Barry
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin Is a Drive-in Now”
United Artists
United Nations
“Upper Manhattan Medical Group”
U.S. Steel Hour (television program)
Vallee, Rudy
“Valse”
van de Leur, Walter
Van Gelder, Rudy
Variety
Vaughan, Sarah
Verve Records
Victor Records
“Violet Blue”
Vocalion Records
Voelker, John D.
Wagner, Robert F., Jr.
Walker, James “Catfish”
“Walk It Off”
Wallace, Royce
Waller, Fats
Washingtonians
“Watch Your Cue”
Watkins, Perry
Wax Records
“We Are the Reporters”
Webb, Chick
Webster, Ben
Weill, Kurt
Wein, George
“Welcome Aboard Blues”
Welles, Orson
“Well, Well”
Wess, Al
West, Eddie
Westbrooks, Beatrice Wright
Westinghouse High School
Weston, Randy
Whaley, Tom
“When I’m Feeling Kinda Blue”
“When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder, I’ll Be There”
“When the Sun Comes Out”
Whistler, James McNeill
Whiteman, Paul
Whitlinger, Fred
“Why Don’t You Do Right”
Wilber, Bob
Willard, Patricia
Williams, Cootie
Williams, Haywood
Williams, Jess
Williams, Joe
Williams, Madeline Grove
Williams, Mary Lou
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, Earl
Wilson, Gerald
Wilson, John S.
Wilson, Teddy
Wolfe, Janet
“Women, Women, Women”
Wood, Ray
Woode, Jimmy
Woodman, Britt
Woodward, Joanne
Woodyard, Sam
World War II
“Wounded Love”
“Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks, The”
Yagella, Bob
