Curtis Reginald Lewis
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Curtis Reginald Lewis (July 13, 1922, Wisconsin – Dec 31, 1987, Sonoma, CA), American composer of popular songs, many of which have become jazz standards, was one of the first black composers and lyricists to set up a publishing line of his own on Broadway in the early 1940s.
Having served in the US Army during World War II (from December 2 1942, discharged as a Corporal October 28, 1945), the body of Curtis Reginald Lewis was interred on March 31, 1988, Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, NY (buried in Section C/A Site 503).
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[edit] Selected Compositions
- All Night Long
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- Shirley Horn; Album: All Night Long (1981)
- Billie Holiday
- George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson; Album: The Swingin's Mutual!
- Freddie Roach; Album: Brown Sugar
- Aretha Franklin; Album: Sweet Bitter Love
- Sonny Criss; Album: Crisscraft (1975)
- Sandy Graham; Album: Sandy Graham
- Elkie Brooks; Album: No More the Fool: The Collection
- Rolf Delfos, Marijn Wijnands; Album: Complete Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Beverley Staunton, Album: Here's to You
- Mary Stallings; Album: Live at the Village Vanguard
- Mary Stallings; Album: San Francisco Jazz Festival
- Dylan Cramer, John Nolan, Ron Johnston; Album: All Night Long
- Nancy Wilson; Album: Lady Sings the Blues
- Joe Sample, Randy Crawford; Album: Feeling Good
- Diana Krall; Album: Only Trust Your Heart
- All Soul
- Blue City
- Fortune Teller, Marion Keene (1955)
- Garden of the Blues Suite, The
- Great City, The
- He Never Mentioned Love
- He’s Gone Again
- Now or Never — Billie Holiday (music), Curtis R. Lewis (words)
- Old Country
- Roaming Lover
- Today I Sing the Blues
- What Would a Woman Do?
- You Oughta Be Mine
[edit] Selected Albums
The Garden of The Blues Shirley Horn sings Curtis Lewis, Steeple Chase Records
[edit] Film & TV
- Blown Away (1994), (song, All Night Long)
