Tag: Lush Life
Claude Hall: Places I’ve Been
Claude Hall was everything you want from a snifter of cognac to end the night.
Billy Strayhorn
July/August 2015 BILLY STRAYHORN by David Hajdu author of Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn William Thomas “Billy” Strayhorn, born in Dayton and raised in poverty in Pittsburgh, grew up yearning to live in Manhattan—as he imagined it from copies of The New Yorker that he bought with earnings from his paper route, a […]
Mary Bogue: Confessions from the Heartbreak Hotel
Mary Bogue seems incapable of hitting a false note, either vocally or emotionally.
