Duke with a Difference is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating:

Clark Terry and some of the top Ellington sidemen of the period perform eight songs associated with Duke, but with fresh arrangements. There is plenty of solo space for Terry, Gonsalves, and Hodges, and the arrangements by Terry and Mercer Ellington cast a new light on some of the warhorses.

- Wikipedia

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Colors In Rhythm by Mercer Ellington And His Orchestra , released on Coral in 1959.

One of the few full band albums ever recorded by Mercer Ellington – a strong 50s session that features work by Billy Strayhorn, Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Jimmy Jones, Jimmy Hamilton, and other luminaries from the Duke Ellington group. Arrangements are by Jones, Ellington, Dick Vance, and Luther Henderson – and the tunes have a rich tonal quality that well lives up to the "colors" in the title. Titles include "Coral Rock", "Black & Tan Fantasy", "Aqua Tonic", "Little White Lies", "Golden Cress", "Azure", "Blue Serge", and "Dawn Of A Greenhorn" - Dusty Groove

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The Peaceful Side is an album by pianist and composer Billy Strayhorn recorded in Paris in 1961 and originally released on United Artists Jazz in 1963..

On All About Jazz, Joel Roberts noted, "This is a quiet, spare recording featuring just Strayhorn's piano with occasional accompaniment by bass, string quartet, or vocal chorus. Strayhorn brings out all the passion and melancholy of his own compositions, which are performed in much more relaxed tempos than we are used to hearing. ... It is a shame that Strayhorn did not record more, since he brought the same extraordinary musical intelligence and sophistication to his piano playing that he did to his composing." - Wikipedia

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The lush life of gay Black musician Billy Strayhorn
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Strayhorn wrote many of Ellington's big hits and lived as an out gay man in mid-century America. 🙏

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The lush life of Billy Strayhorn, the gay Black man who was Duke Ellington's 'right arm'

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La finezza più grande di "Lotus Blossom" risiede forse nell'accordo di tonica, suonato per tre volte in posizione di rivolto, prima di essere udito in posizione fondamentale.

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Il tecnico del suono ha ripreso Duke Ellington a sua insaputa, durante una pausa. Si sentono voci e rumori di fondo, sono i musicisti che smontano gli strumenti. Un momento del tutto autentico, nel quale Ellington pensa all'amico Billy Strayhorn.

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