Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 7360 288X
https://isni.org/isni/000000007360288X
Name: 
Billy Strayhorn
Billy Straythorn
Stayhorn, William Thomas
Strayhorn
Strayhorn, B.
Strayhorn, Billy
Strayhorn, Swee’ Pea
Strayhorn, Sweet Pea
Strayhorn, William
Strayhorn, William Thomas
Swee Pea
Dates: 
1915-1967
Creation class: 
Computer file
Language material
Musical sound recording
Notated music
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
instrumentalist
lyricist
performer
Related identities: 
Swea Pea (pseudonym; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Alvis, Hayes (co-performer)
Anderson, Ivie (co-performer)
Anderson, William “Cat” (co-performer)
Andrews, Russ (co-performer)
Armstrong, Louis (co-performer)
Ashby, Harold (co-performer)
Avendorf, Fred (co-performer)
Baker, Shorty (co-performer)
Bell, Aaron (co-performer)
Benjamin, Joe (co-performer)
Bigard, Barney (co-performer)
Billy Strayhorn Trio (isMemberOf)
Blanton, Jimmy (co-performer)
Braud, Wellman (co-performer)
Brown, Lawrence (co-performer)
Byas, Don (co-performer)
Carney, Harry (1910-1974)
Carney, Harry (co-performer)
Castleman, Jeff (co-performer)
Clark, Pete (co-performer)
Clarke, Kenny (co-performer)
Connors, Chuck (co-performer)
Cook, Willie (co-performer)
Cooper, Buster (co-performer)
Danval, Marc
Dudek, Gerd (co-performer)
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (isMemberOf)
Ellington, Duke
Ellington, Duke (1899-1974)
Ellington, Duke (co-performer)
Ellington, Mercer (co-performer)
Gee, Matthew (co-performer)
Gonsalves, Paul (co-performer)
Greer, Sonny (co-performer)
Grissom, Jimmy (co-performer)
Guy, Fred (co-performer)
Hamilton, Jimmy (1917-1994)
Hamilton, Jimmy (co-performer)
Hardwick, Otto (co-performer)
Hodges, Johnny (1906-1970)
Hodges, Johnny (co-performer)
Horn, Paul (co-performer)
Jackson, Chubby (co-performer)
Jackson, Quentin (co-performer)
Jenkins, Freddy (co-performer)
Johnson, Jimmy (co-performer)
Johnson, Money (co-performer)
Jones, Herbie (co-performer)
Jones, Jo (co-performer)
Jones, Rufus (co-performer)
Jones, Wallace (co-performer)
Koller, Hans (co-performer)
Leonard Feather’s Esquire All‐Americans (isMemberOf)
Little, Steve (co-performer)
Lucas, Al (co-performer)
Marshall, Wendell (co-performer)
Mathot, Éric
Meringuito, Andres (co-performer)
Miley, Bubber (co-performer)
Mills, Irving
Minerve, Harold "Geezil" (co-performer)
Mingus, Charles (co-performer)
Mullens, Ed (co-performer)
Nance, Ray (1913-1976)
Nance, Ray (co-performer)
Nanton, Joe (co-performer)
Palmier, Remo (co-performer)
Pettiford, Oscar (co-performer)
Pratt, Jimmy (co-performer)
Preston, Eddie (co-performer)
Priester, Julian (co-performer)
Procope, Russell (1908-1981)
Procope, Russell (co-performer)
Prudente, Vince (co-performer)
Rubin, Al (co-performer)
Sanders, John (co-performer)
Sanner, Willi (co-performer)
Sears, Al (co-performer)
Shavers, Charlie (co-performer)
Smith, Charlie (co-performer)
Stewart, Rex (co-performer)
Stone, Fred (co-performer)
Strayhorn, Billy
Taylor, Billy (co-performer)
Taylor, Dave (co-performer)
Taylor, Malcolm (co-performer)
Terry, Clark (1920-...)
Terry, Clark (co-performer)
The Oscar Pettiford Quartet (isMemberOf)
Tizol, Juan
Tizol, Juan (co-performer)
Trotman, Lloyd (co-performer)
Turney, Norris (co-performer)
Webster, Ben (co-performer)
Whetsel, Arthur (co-performer)
Williams, Cootie (co-performer)
Wood, Booty (co-performer)
Woode, Jimmy (co-performer)
Woodman, Britt (co-performer)
Woodyard, Sam (co-performer)
Zoller, Attila (co-performer)
Titles: 
3:10 Blues
9:20 Special
"A" Train
Ac‐cent‐tchu‐ate the Positive
After All
Agra
Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I
Air-Conditioned Jungle
All Day Long
All Heart
All Too Soon
Amad
American in Paris, An
American Splendor
Any Bonds Today?
B D B
Baby Clementine
Balcony Serenade
Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters
Bang-up blues (3 min 04 s)
Big Shoe
Black and Tan Fantasy
Black, Brown, and Beige: I. Black
Black, Brown, and Beige: II. Brown
Black, Brown, and Beige: III. Beige
Black butterfly (3 min 06 s)
Blood count (4 min 03 s)
Blue Belles of Harlem
Blue Is the Night
Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
Blue Skies
Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)
Blues-A-Plenty
Blues for Blanton (2 min 37 s)
Blues in Blueprint (3 min 37 s)
Blues in Orbit (2 min 25 s)
Blues, The
Body and Soul
Boo-Dah
Broadway Babe
Brown Betty
Brown Penny (3 min)
Bugle Breaks
C Jam blues (2 min 55 s)
C Jam Blues (4 min 50 s)
Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me, I
Can't You Read Between the Lines?
Candy
Caravan
Carnegie Blues
Carousel
Chalmeau
Chelsea bridge (7 min 20 s)
Christmas Surprise, A
Clementine
Come sunday (2 min 32 s)
Come sunday (3 min 32 s)
Come to Baby, Do
Concerto for Cootie
Controversial suite, Part I, The
Controversial suite, part II, The
Cool Your Motor
Cotton Tail
Cottontail (2 min 51 s)
Crazy for You
Creole Love Call
Crescendo in Blue
Cue for saxophone
Day dream (4 min 36 s)
Depk
Didn’t Know About You, I
Diminuendo in Blue
Dirge
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got, I
don't mind, I
Don’t Take Your Love From Me
Don’t You Know I Care?
Drawing Room Blues
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn - piano duets great times!
E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke), The
E.S.P. (Extra Sensory Perception)
Eighth Veil, The
Esquire Swank
Everything but You
Festival Suite
Flamingo (2 min 56 s)
Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, A
Frankie and Johnny
Frustration
Girl Crazy
Go Away Blues
Goldwyn Follies, The
Gone With the Wind
got it bad (4 min 33 s), I
got it bad and that ain't good, I
Grievin'
Happy Go Lucky Local
Harlem Air Shaft
Hey, Buddy Bolden
Homesick, That's All
Honey Hill
Hop, Skip and Jump
How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me
How High the Moon
I’m Beginning to See the Light
I'm Checking Out, Go'om Bye
If You Are but a Dream
If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
Imagine My Frustration
In a blue summer garden (4 min 02 s)
In a Mellotone (2 min 40 s)
In a Mellow Tone
In a sentimental mood (5 min 58 s)
(In My) Solitude
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Indian summer
Intimacy of the Blues
Isfahan
Island Virgin
It don't mean a thing
It Had to Be You
Jack the Bear
Jeep Is Jumpin', The
Johnny come lately
Jump for Joy
Jumpin' Punkins
Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid
June's Jumpin'
Just a Memory
Just a-settin' and a-rockin'
Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’
Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me)
Killing Myself
Kissing Bug
Koko
Lady, Be Good
Lady of the Lavender Mist
Lament for Javanette
Last Time I Saw Paris, The
Laura
Lay-By
Let’s Fall in Love
Long Long Journey
Lotus blossom
Love Letters
Lush life (3 min 14 s)
Lush life the music of Billy Strayhorn.
Madness in Great Ones
Main stem : Swing music 1944 series N°597
Marian McPartland plays the music of Billy Strayhorn
Maybe
Midnight in Paris, A
Midriff
Misfit Blues
Monk’s Dream
Mooche (6 min 34 s), The
Mood indigo (6 min 17 s)
Mood indigo (6 min 55 s)
Moon Mist
Mount Harissa
My Honey’s Loving Arms
My Little Brown Book
New Look (Snibor), The
New World A-Comin’
New-York city blues (3 min 12 s)
New York, New York
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A
No, No, Nanette
On the Alamo
Once Upon a Dream
One O’Clock Jump
One That Got Away, The
Orson
Oscalypso (2 min 41 s)
(Otto Make That) Riff Staccato
Overture to a Jam Session, Parts 1 & 2
Passion flower (4 min 53 s)
Passion flower (5 min 49 s)
Peaceful Side of Jazz, The
Pelican Drag
Perdido (2 min 53 s)
Perfume Suite, The
Perido (8 min 20 s)
Piano Passion
Pie Eyes Blues (3 min 26 s)
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Ancestry / All Heart / Beyond Category / Total Jazz
Prelude to a Kiss
Pretty Girl
Progressive gavotte (2 min 57 s)
Proper Introduction to Billy Strayhorn: Passion Flower, A
Put Yourself in My Place, Baby
Rain Check
Raincheck
Real Book, The
Reeling and Rocking
Ring Dem Bells
Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note
Rockin’ in Rhythm
Rocks in My Bed
Round about midnight (5 min 35 s), '
Satin doll
Saturday Afternoon Blues
Schwiphti
Self Portrait (of the Bean)
Sentimental Journey
Sentimental Lady (3 min 58 s)
Singin’ in the Rain
Skin deep (6 min 48 s)
Smada (2 min 36 s)
Snafu
SNIBOR
Solitude (4 min 12 s)
Someone
Something to live for
Song book
Sono
Sophisticated Ladies
Sophisticated lady (2 min 27 s)
Star-Crossed Lovers, The
Stomp (Johnny Come Lately)
Stomp, Look and Listen
Stompy Jones (6 min 38 s)
Strange Feeling
Studio sessions New York 1962
Such Sweet Thunder
Suite Strayhorn
Summertime
Sweet and Pungent (4 min 01 s)
Swinger's Jump (3 min 51 s), The
Swingers get the blues, too (3 min 08s), The
Take Love Easy
Take the 'A' train (2 min 17 s)
Take the "A" train (7 min 56 s)
take the a train arr take the a train musi
Tattooed Bride, The
Telstar
Tenderly
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Three cent stomp (3 min 03 s)
Three J's Blues (2 min 51 s)
Tone parallel to Harlem the Harlem suite (13 min 44 s), A
Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face)
Tonk (2 min 55 s)
Tourist Point of View
Track 360 (2 min 03 s)
Unbooted Character
Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Uptown
Vagabonds
Villes Ville is the Place, Man (2 min 31 s)
Violet Blue
Warm Valley
Watch the Birdie
What Am I Here For
What Good Would It Do?
Whispering
World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, The
Wounded Love
You’re the One
Your Love Has Faded
Zweet Zurzday
Notes: 
Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Pianists
Ellington, D. Boogie woogie piano transcriptions, c1944
Jazz
New Grove dict. of jazz (Strayhorn, Billy (William; Swee' Pea); b. 11-19-15, Dayton, OH, d. 5-31-67, New York; composer, arranger, and pianist)
Southern, E. Bio. dict. of Afro-American and African musicians (Strayhorn, William (Billy; Sweet-Pea); b. 11-29-15, Dayton, Ohio, d. 5-31-67, New York; jazz arranger)
Strayhorn, B. Marian McPartland plays the music of Billy Strayhorn [SR] p1987 label (Billy Strayhorn) insert (b. William Thomas Strayhorn; known as "Sweet Pea")
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