William "Billy" Strayhorn
(1915-1967)
Jazz composer and arranger. Collaborator with Duke Ellington. Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train" became the Ellington orchestra's theme song. A graduate of Westinghouse High School, Strayhorn had his musical talents nurtured here.
Marker is on North Murtland Street 0 miles north of Monticello Street, on the right when traveling south.
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