Last week saw the release of Cheek to Cheek, a Tony Bennett-Lady Gaga collaborative album featuring a powerful cover of the Strayhorn standard, “Lush Life.”  This week, Gaga and Bennett cover the November edition of Downbeat Magazine, a leading jazz music media outlet in the States and U.K..

Pages before the magazine delves into the passion project that was Cheek to Cheek, Downbeat sits down with Strayhorn heir Alyce Claerbaut.  As both Strayhorn’s niece and the president of Billy Strayhorn Songs, Inc., Claerbaut provided a unique personal-meets-professional perspective about the legacy of her late uncle:

“[Strayhorn” lived in great sorrow that he was not credited as he should have been,” she says at one point, referencing Duke Ellington’s frequent overshadowing of Strayhorn.  “Duke had such a hold on him because he had all the publishing rights to his songs.”

The November issue of Downbeat is on stands now.