Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-352

  Van de Leur, Walter ^a  

^a Amsterdam Conservatory and the Dutch Jazz Archives ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arrangements; Autograph scores; Duke Ellington; Jazz; Jazz composer; Jazz orchestrator; Musical collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940506607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195124484.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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