Billy Eckstine
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Biography
[Edit]Billy Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music. An influence looming large in the cultural development of soul and R&B singers from Sam Cooke to Prince, Eckstine was able to play it straight on his pop hits "Prisoner of Love," "My Foolish Heart" and "I Apologize." Born in Pittsburgh but raised in Washington, D.C., Eckstine began singing at the age of seven and entered many amateur talent shows. He had also planned on a football career, though after breaking his collar bone, he made music his focus. After working his way west to Chicago during the late '30s, Eckstine was hired by Earl Hines to join his Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939. Though white bands of the era featured males singing straight-ahead romantic ballads, black bands were forced to stick to novelty or blues vocal numbers until the advent of Eckstine and Herb Jeffries (from Duke Ellington's Orchestra).
Though several of Eckstine's first hits with Hines were novelties like "Jelly, Jelly" and "The Jitney Man," he also recorded several straight-ahead songs, including the hit "Stormy Monday." By 1943, he gained a trio of stellar bandmates — Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan. After forming his own big band that year, he hired all three and gradually recruited still more modernist figures and future stars: Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Fats Navarro, and Art Blakey, as well as arrangers Tadd Dameron and Gil Fuller. The Billy Eckstine Orchestra was the first bop big-band group, and its leader reflected bop innovations by stretching his vocal harmonics into his normal ballads. Despite the group's modernist slant, Eckstine hit the charts often during the mid-'40s, with Top Ten entries including "A Cottage for Sale" and "Prisoner of Love." On the group's frequent European and American tours, Eckstine also played trumpet, valve trombone, and guitar.
Though he was forced to give up the band in 1947 (Gillespie formed his own bop big band that same year), Eckstine made the transition to string-filled balladry with ease. He recorded more than a dozen hits during the late '40s, including "My Foolish Heart" and "I Apologize." He was also quite popular in Britain, hitting the Top Ten there twice during the '50s — "No One But You" and "Gigi" — as well as several duet entries with Sarah Vaughan. Eckstine returned to his jazz roots occasionally as well, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie, and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and the 1960 live LP No Cover, No Minimum featured him taking a few trumpet solos as well. He recorded several albums for Mercury and Roulette during the early '60s (his son Ed was the president of Mercury), and he appeared on Motown for a few standards albums during the mid-'60s. After recording very sparingly during the '70s, Eckstine made his last recording (Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter) in 1986. He died of a heart attack in 1993.
Title: Verve Jazz Masters, Vol. 22: Billy Eckstine
Artist: Billy Eckstine
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Over the Rainbow (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Billy Eckstine, The Benny Carter
Title: The Savoy Sessions: Billy Eckstine - Mister B. and the Band
Artist: Billy Eckstine
Genre: Jazz
Title: Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter
Artist: Billy Eckstine, The Benny Carter
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Everything I Have Is Yours (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Billy Eckstine
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop, Bop
Title: The Classics Of Mr. B (Remastered) (CD1)
Artist: Billy Eckstine
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Collections
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952, Vol. 8
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits and Highlights 1951 Volume 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1949, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock 'n' Roll, Pop & Soul Sisters, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Irving Berlin Songbook: Cheek to Cheek
Genre: Jazz
Title: Christmas Eve (Jazz Christmas)
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Greatest Jazz Big Bands
Genre: Jazz
Title: Fortune 50S
Title: Broadway Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: American Jazz Ballads
Genre: Jazz
Title: Mellow Jazz Vocals
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1959, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Yesterday's Hits Vol 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Bits Hits & Highlights of 1951 Volume 14
Genre: Pop
Title: The Great Pop Songs of All Time, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: The Men of Soul 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Soul At Its Best
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Soul Out
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: The Detroit Legacy Volume 2
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952 Volume 24
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1959, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1951 Volume 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Detroit Love, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: City Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Sun, Sea and Soul
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Detroit Soul, the Motown Years Volume 9
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Music In the Paddock Lounge
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952 Volume 23
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1949, Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1948, Vol. 8
Genre: Pop
Title: The Most Essential Jazz Collaborations
Genre: Jazz
Title: Roads of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 17 (1947-1949)
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Retrospective Hits of 1942
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 19 (1952-1954)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 101 - The Best of Big Band
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1948, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Jazz Oldies & Goodies, Vol. 2 - Make Believe Ballroom
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1952 Volume 11
Genre: Pop
Title: Original Hits: The Biggest Song & Singers, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Big Hits & Highlights Of 1950, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Superstars of Jazz: The Best Recordings of the 40s
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Hugo Winterhalter Collection 1939-61, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: 108 Songs Vintage Music Jukebox
Genre: Pop
Title: Caravan - Juan Tizol - Stunning Historical Recordings
Genre: Jazz
Title: Cole Porter Songbook: Night and Day
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Great Pop Songs of All Time, Vol. 7
Genre: Pop
Title: This Is Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Classics: Blues
Genre: Jazz
Title: Giants of Jazz: Love Songs
Genre: Jazz
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1954, Vol. 2
Genre: Pop
Title: Big Band Jazz, the Jubilee Sessions, 1943 to 1946
Genre: Jazz
Title: Songs For Vintage Lovers
Genre: Jazz
Title: Get Happy: The Arlen Centennial Celebration
Genre: Jazz
Title: Autumn Spirits - Jazz for Chillin' (Extended Version)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Giants of Jazz: Ballads
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Scat of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 18 (1947-1952)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics - Vol. 16 (1945-1947)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Savoy 60th Anniversary - Timeless
Genre: Jazz
Title: L.A. Jazz Noire - Hip Cats & Their Combos
Genre: World Music
Title: Big Hits & Highlights Of 1950, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: All That Jazz, Vol. 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Smash Jazz Hits Vol 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: World War II - Greatest Radio Songs, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: American Crooners
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Two Way Family Favourites, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: Big Hits & Highlights of 1948, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Featuring albums
Title: The Essential Sarah Vaughan - The Great Songs
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Lost and Found: Four Tops "Breaking Through" (1963-1964)
Artist: Four Tops
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Irving Berlin Always
Artist: Irving Berlin Always
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Rock, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Bop, Smooth Jazz
Title: The Complete Sarah Vaughan On Mercury Vol.2
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Crooners
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Latin, Pop, Alternative, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: Rewound & Reworked - Jazz Remixes Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Jazz, Dancefloor
Title: Standard Jazz: The Masters Perform the Great American Songbook, Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Ultimate Jazz Archive (Set 37: Big Band, Disc 2: Woody Herman)
Artist: Woody Herman
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Genre: Jazz, Samba, World Music, Latin, Bossanova