Take the "A" Train
Composed by Billy Strayhorn in 1939, Take the "A" Train is a jazz standard, and was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. The title refers to the A subway service that runs through New York City. Ella Fitzgerald sang and recorded this song many times. In 1999, National Public Radio included Take the "A" Train in the "NPR 100", NPR's list of the one-hundred most important American musical works of the twentieth century.
Billy Strayhorn (1915 – 1967) was an American composer, pianist and arranger. His collaboration with bandleader, composer, and pianist Duke Ellington lasted nearly three decades. Billy Strayhorn's compositions include Chelsea Bridge and Lush Life, as well as Take the "A" Train.
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