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Episode Details: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Series: Independent Lens
Season: Season 8
Episode Number: 14
Air Date:
Duration: 60 min
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.
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