Other soloist may be added. Complete Capitol Recordings. Relaxed swinging composition titled after one of Strayhorn's nicknames. November 13, 1948. One of the few works from the ill-fated Broadway Show Beggar's Holiday to find its place in the Ellington band repertory.
Mysterious piece alludes to the imagined Orient.
Billy Strayhorn's famous piece in its original, unabridged, and never fully recorded version. Duke Ellington Songbook. Charted for the Ellington Songbook sessions with Ella Fitzgerald. Strayhorn the colorist. I Got it Bad .