excerpt from 'Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress' pp. 153 (92 words)
excerpt from 'Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress' pp. 153 (92 words)
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Edmund Anderson came over with Ted Grouya and their new song entitled "Flamingo." I listened and liked it, and gave it to [Billy] Strayhorn right away so that he could prepare it for Herb Jeffries to sing. The orchestration he did on "Flamingo" was, in my opinion, a turning point in vocal background orchestration, a renaissance in elaborate ornamentation for the accompaniment of singers. It soon caught on and became a big hit. Since then, other arrangers have become more and more daring, but Billy Strayhorn really started it all with "Flamingo." |
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