by David Hajdu
Amsterdam News
Anatomy of a Murder (film)
Anchors Aweigh (Copasetics)
Anderson, Cat
Anderson, Edmund
Anderson, Ivie
“Angu”
Apollo Theater (Harlem)
Applebaum, Louis
Arie Crown Theatre (Chicago)
Arkansas School for the Blind
Armstrong, Louis
Army Air Force, U.S.
Art Institute of Chicago
Artists Theatre (New York)
Ashbery, John
Asmussen, Svend
Atkins, Cholly
Avakian, George
Babs, Alice
“Babsie”
Bailey, Dave
Bailey, Ozzie
Baker, Harold “Shorty”
Baldwin, James
“Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters”
“Ballet of the Flying Saucers”
Bal Masque (Miami Beach)
“Bang-Up Blues”
Barclay Studios (Paris)
Barlett, Dean
Barnet, Charlie
Bartók, Béla
Basie, Count
Basin Street East (New York)
Bauduc, Ray
Bearden, Romare
Beatty, Talley
“Beauty and Talent”
Bechet, Sidney
Beggar’s Holiday (Ellington and Latouche)
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay)
Belafonte, Harry
Belcher, Harold
Bellson, Louie
Benjamin, Bea
Benjamin, Ben
Bennett, Tony
Berdin, Jean
Berg, Billy
Bernstein, Walter
Berry, Bill
“Beyond Category”
Bigard, Barney
Big George’s Barbecue (Queens)
Big Sound, The (album)
Billboard
Billy Strayhorn/Live!!! (album)
Birdland (New York)
Black, Brown and Beige (Ellington)
Blakey, Art
Blankfort, Henry
Blanton, Jimmy
Blessed and the Damned, The (Welles and Ellington)
“Blood Count”
“Blossom”
“Blue Belles of Harlem”
“Blue Cloud”
Blue Mural from Two Perspectives, A (Strayhorn and Ellington)
Blue Note (Chicago)
Blue Rose (album)
“Blues for Strayhorn”
“Blues in the Night”
Blue Stars
Boatwright, Ruth Ellington
“Body and Soul”
Bogin, Abba
Bolling, Claude
“Boll Weevil Ballet”
Bond, Julian
“Bon Voyage”
“Boo-Dah”
“Boo-Lose”
Borne, Hal
Boston Symphony
“Botch-a-Me”
Boyd. Charles N.
Boyd, Jack
Brand, Dollar
Branker, Roy
Bray, Douglas
Brecht, Bertolt
Brewington, Frederick
Bricktop’s (Paris)
Bridgers, Aaron at memorial; in Paris; recording by; and Strayhorn’s death; during World War II
“Brighten the Corner Where You Are”
Britten, Benjamin
Broadas, Clyde
Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI)
Broadway Theater (New York)
“Brother Big Eyes”
Brothers nightclub (Los Angeles)
Brown, Ernest “Brownie”
Brown, Lawrence
Brown, Louis
Brown, Ray
Brown, William
“Brown Betty”
“Brown Penny”
“Brown-Skinned Girl in the Calico Gown”
Brubeck, Dave
Bruce, Gladys
Bruce, Marian
Bruskin, Perry
Bryant, Marie
“Bugle Breaks”
Burnett, W. R.
Burns, Ralph
Byers, Billy
Cabin in the Sky (Ellington and Latouche)
Cafe Society (New York)
Cage, John
Cahn, Sammy
Calloway, Cab
Camel Caravan (radio show)
Capri nightclub (Los Angeles)
“Caravan”
Carmen Jones (film)
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carmichael, Stokely
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall Jazz Band
Carney, Harry
Carpenter, Thelma
Carrière, Claude
Carroll, Diahann
Carter, Benny
Casa Mañana (Culver City, Calif.)
Castle, Nick
Castro (artist)
Catizone, Billy
Catlin, Charlotte
Century of Negro Progress (exhibition)
Chakrabarti, Cheryll Conaway
Chambers. W. Paris
Charles, Ezzard
“Chelsea Bridge”
Chez Honey (Paris)
Chez Moune de Rivel (Paris)
Chez Paree (Chicago)
Chicago Defender
“China Boy”
Chocolatiers dance troupe
“Christmas Surprise”
“Cindy with the Two Left Feet”
“Circle of Fourths”
“‘C’ Jam Blues, The”
Claerbaut, Adrienne Conaway
Clarke, Dini
Clarke, Kenny
Clef records
“Clementine”
Clinton, Larry
Clooney, Rosemary
Club Saint-Germain (Paris)
Coast Guard Band
Cockleshell Heroes, The (film)
Cole, Nat “King”
Coleman, Bill
Coles, Honi
Collins, Harry
Collins, William “Chink”
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Records
Columbia University
“Come On-a My House”
“Come Sunday”
Conaway, Georgia Strayhorn
Conaway, Gregory
Conaway, Keith
Conaway, Kevin
Conaway, Michael
Conaway, Robert
Concerto for Piano and Percussion (Strayhorn)
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra (Weill)
“Congo Square”
Connors, Chuck
Consumer Reports magazine
Cook, Charles “Cookie”
Cook, Willie
Cooper, Bob
Cooper, Buster
Copa City dinner theater (Miami Beach)
Copasetics
“Cop-Out”
Corona Mundi Art Center (New York)
Coronets
Coslow, Sam
Costello, Lou
“Cottage on the Hill”
Cotton Club (Harlem)
Cotton Club Boys
“Cottontail”
Crawford Grill (Pittsburgh)
Creamy (album)
“Creole Love Call”
“Creole Rhapsody”
Cromer, Harold
Crosby, Bing
Crosby, Bob
Cross, James
Cross, Wally
Cue for Saxophone (album)
“Cue’s Blue Now”
Cullaz, Maurice
cummings, e. e.
“Cymbal Sockin’ Sam”
Damone, Vic
Dance, Helen Oakley
Dance, Stanley
Dandridge, Dorothy
“Darn That Dream”
Davis, Almena
Davis, Bette
Davis, Elois
Davis, Jimmy
Davis, Kay
Davis, Miles
Davis, “Wild Bill”
Day, Doris
“Day Dream”
Dearie, Blossom
Death of Odysseus (Abel)
Debussy, Claude
“Deep Purple”
Deep South Suite, The (Ellington and Strayhorn)
de Kooning, Elaine
De La Beckwith, Byron
Delacorte Theatre (New York)
DeLavallade, Carmen
D’Emilio, Anthony Edward
Dempsey, Jack
de Nagy, Tibor
DeRose, Peter
Detienne, Tom
Dicks, Lillian Strayhorn
“Diga-Diga-Doo”
Dillard, Bill
“Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue”
Disney, Walt
Dixon, Ivan
Dixon, Mildred
Doll, Bill
“Don’t Mess Around with the Women”
Dorsey, Tommy
Dort, Calvin
Double Six of Paris
Douglas, Alan
Down Beat; Jazz Critics Poll
Down There (Copasetics)
Drum Is a Woman, A (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Duke, Vernon
Duke Ellington jazz Society
Duke Ellington Piano Method for Blues
Duke Ellington’s Jazz Violin Session (album)
Duke’s in Bed (album)
Duke with a Difference (album)
Dunham, Katherine
Duvivier, George
Dworkin, Miriam Machiz
“East St. Louis Toodle-O”
“Ebony Rhapsody”
Eckstine, Billy
Eddie Condon Floor Show, The (television program)
Edwards, Rex
Eisner, Jerome
Eldridge, Jean
“Elf”
Ella at Duke’s Place
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (album)
Ellington, Daisy
Ellington, Duke; booklet on instrumental approach of; Bridgers and; Broadway show by; and civil rights movement; Clooney and; Copasetics and; European tour of; film scores by; Fitzgerald and; at Hickory House; image projected by; introduced to Billy; at jazz festivals; Logans and; Middle East tour of; and Mine Boy project; musical revue by; piano duets with; professional background of; publicity for; and publishing of compositions; religious music of; Shakespearean suite of; Sinatra and; singers with; songs composed by (see also specific titles); Strayhorn hired by; and Strayhorn memorial; Strayhorn’s business arrangement with; and Strayhorn’s death; Strayhorn’s disengagement from; and Strayhorn’s homosexuality; and Strayhorn’s illness; and Strayhorn’s proposed partnership with Henderson; Tchaikovsky and; television special of; theme songs of; tone poems by (see also specific works); during World War II
Ellington, Edna
Ellington, Evelyn
Ellington, J. E.
Ellington, Maria
Ellington, Mercer
Ellington, Ruth, see Boatwright, Ruth Ellington
Ellington at Newport (album)
Ellingtonia (album)
Ericson, Rolf
Esch, Bill
Esch, Veronica Heffernan
Evans, Gil
Evers, Medgar
Evers, Merlie
Fantastic Rhythm (Strayhorn)
Far East Suite (Ellington and Strayhorn)
Farrell, Jack
Faust, musical version of, see Blessed and the Damned, The
Fay, Frank
Feather, Leonard
“Feather Roll Blues”
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Felton, Paul
Ferrer, José
Fields, Frank
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (New York)
Finegan, Bill
Fitzgerald, Ella
“Flamingo”
Flash and Dash
Flash Inn (New York)
Flender, Harold
“Flippant Flurry”
“Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, A”
Fol, Raymond
Ford, Dorothy
Fowler, Oliver “Boggy”
Franck, César
“Frankie and Johnny”
“Frustration”
“Fun to Be Fooled”
Gaby and Haynes (Paris)
Gaines, Lee
“Gal from Joe’s”
Gallop, Sammy
Gardin, Dorothy Ford
Garfield, John
Garner, Erroll
Gamer, Linton
Gaudry, Michel
Gay, John
Gazzara, Ben
Gensel, John
Gentry, Herb
George, Don
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gibran, Kahlil
Gillespie, Dizzy
“Girls Want a Hero”
Glaser, Joe
Godkin, Paul
Goldberg, Francis
Goldberg, Frank
Goldberg, Monticello
Goldmark, Karl
Gomez, Dolores
Gonsalves, Paul
Goodman, Benny
“Good Queen Bess”
Gooson, Steve
Gordon, Claire
“Got No Time”
Grace Cathedral (San Francisco)
Graham, Bill
Gramercy Five
Granada TV
Granz, Norman
Grappelli, Stephane
Greenlee, Bluford
Greenlee, George
Greenlee, William Augustus “Gus”
Greenwood, Lil
Greer, Sonny
Gregory, Dick
Grieg, Edvard
“Grievin’”
Griffin, Johnny
Grissom, Jimmy
Grouya, Ted
Grove, Bill
Guinness, Alec
Gunga Din (film)
Guthrie, Tyrone
“Half the Fun”
Hall, Al
Hall, Juanita
Hamilton, Chico
Hamilton, Jimmy
Hamilton, Vivian
Hampton, Lionel
Hampton, Slide
Hardwicke, Otto “Toby”
“Harlem Rumba”
Harrah’s Casino Cabaret (Reno)
Harris, Tom
Harris, Woogie
Harrison, Lou
Hartigan, Grace
Hawkins, Erskine
Hayes, Cleo
Haymes, Joe
Hayton, Lennie
Hayton-Horne Music, Inc.
“Hear Say”
Hefti, Neal
Hemming, Roy
Henderson, Fletcher
Henderson, Luther
Henderson. Steffi
Hendricks, Jon
Hentoff, Nat
Herforth, Harry
Herman, Woody
“Hey, Cherie”
Hibbler, Al
Hickenbottom family
Hickory House (New York)
High Hat Club (Boston)
Hill, Kenneth
Hill, Lois
Himes, Chester
Hindemith, Paul
Hines, Earl
Hines, Felrath
“Hip Hoe Down”
Hodges, Cue
Hodges, Johnny
Holiday, Billie
Holloway, Nancy
Hollywood Bar (Harlem)
Hollywood Canteen
Hollywood Club (New York)
“Honeysuckle Rose”
“Hoppin’ John”
Horne, Lena; and civil rights movement; at Copasetics events; Logans and; marriage of; recordings by; in sacred concert; songs written for; and Strayhorn’s death; and Strayhorn’s illness; and during World War II
Hot Club de France
Hudson, Will
Hungarian Rhapsody (Liszt)
Hurley, Ruby
Hyde, George, Studio
Ibrahim, Abdullah
Ice, Orva Lee
“I Could Write a Book”
“I Don’t Mind”
“If I Can’t Have You”
“If We Were Any More British, We Couldn’t Talk at All”
“If You Were There”
“I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good”
“I Got Rhythm”
“I’ll Never Have to Dream Again”
“I’m Afraid”
“Imagine My Frustration”
“I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom Bye”
“I’m Just a Lucky So and So”
“I’m Still Begging You”
In a Mellow Tone (album)
“In a Sentimental Mood”
Indigos, The
“In My Solitude”
“In the Dungeons of Guilt”
“Isfahan”
“I Surrender, Dear”
“It All Depends on Your Point of View”
“It Don’t Mean a Thing”
“It Happens to Be Me”
“It Must Be a Dream”
“It’s All Right with Me”
“I’ve Got a Passport from Georgia”
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Mahalia
Jackson, Milt
Jackson, Oliver
Jackson, Quentin
“Jack the Bear”
Jacobs, Phoebe
Jamal, Ahmad
James, Harry
Jamison, Marshall
Jazz Music
Jazz Scene, The (anthology album)
“Jeep Is Jumpin’, The”
“Jeep’s Blues”
Jeffries, Herb
Jet magazine
“Johnny Come Lately”
Johnny Hodges, Soloist, Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra
Johnson, James P.
Johnston, Arthur
Joliffe, Mary
Jones, Fritz
Jones, Hank
Jones, Herbie
Jones, Jimmy
Jones, Jo
Jones, Richard B.
Josephson, Barney
“Juice A-Plenty”
Juilliard School
Jump for Joy (musical revue)
“Jumpin’ Jive”
“Jumpin’ Punkins”
“Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid”
“Junior Hop”
“Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’”
“Just Squeeze Me”
Katz, Dick
Keepnews, Orrin
Kemp, Chubby
Kemp, Irene
Kennedy, John F.
Kent, Arthur
Kenton, Stan
Kentucky Club (New York)
Kern, Jerome
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirk, Andy
Kitt, Eartha
Koger, Ralph
“Ko-Ko”
Kresch, Albert
Kuller, Sid
Kyle’s nightclub (Paris)
“Lady Mac”
Laffont, Robert
Lamb, John
Lambert, Constant
“Lament for an Orchid”
Landau, Irwin
Langner, Armina Marshall
Langner, Lawrence
langouste qui ne pense a rien, La (Welles)
Lardner, Ring, Jr.
Larkin, Milton
Latouche, John
Leave It to Me (musical)
Leavy, Ray
Lee, Henry
Lehner, Gerhart
Leslie, Alfred
Leslie, Frank S.
“Let Nature Take Its Course”