This musician included a so-called "Ballet of the Flying Saucers" in a musical work depicting the "shady lady" Madam Zajj  (zadge) , a personification of African music.
This musician included a so-called "Ballet of the Flying Saucers" in a musical work depicting the "shady lady" Madam Zajj  (zadge) , a personification of African music. Another album by this musician includes the pieces "Sonnet to Hank Cinq" and "Madness in Great Ones" and is a twelve-part suite setting William Shakespeare to music. This musician, who composed  A Drum is a Woman  and  Such Sweet Thunder , employed the saxophonist Johnny (*)  Hodges and collaborated with the composer-arranger Billy Strayhorn, who wrote a standard inspired by the "quickest way" to get to Sugar Hill in Harlem. For 10 points, name this jazz pianist and one-time bandleader of the Cotton Club, whose orchestra often performed songs such as "Take the 'A' Train" and "It Don't Mean a Thing."
This musician included a so-called "Ballet of the Flying Saucers" in a musical work depicting the "shady lady" Madam Zajj  (zadge) , a personification of African music.
Duke  Ellington  [or Edward Kennedy  Ellington ]