The Queen’s Suite
The story goes that one copy of the 1959 recording was pressed and sent to Her Majesty.
Got it
After Stephen Colbert joked about Donald Trump and an EMT's Heimlich skills, Jon Batiste commented with a couple of bars of Billy Strayhorn's "U.M.M.G.," whose title refers to the Upper Manhattan Medical Group. Arthur Logan, Duke Ellington's doctor, was a member. Someone got it.
On Duke Ellington’s birthday
Ellington and Strayhorn, on a train, composing.
Slavic Soul Party! Plays Duke Ellington’s “Far East Suite”
It is impossible to sit still when this record is on.
“Lush Life” plus
Duke Ellington and the radio personality William B. Williams talk. Billy Strayhorn sings and plays.
Billy Strayhorn centenary
William Thomas Strayhorn was born on November 29, 1915.