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Artist Information

Genres: Big Band, Bop, Ballads, Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz

Active: 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's

Born: July 8, 1914 in Pittsburgh, PA

Followers

Cecil Gant, Sarah Vaughan, Jerry Butler, Roscoe Mitchell, Ernie Andrews, John Holt, Roy Brown, Billy Cobham, Barkin' Bill, The Blue Dahlia, Percy Mayfield, Frank Sinatra, Roy Hamilton, Ed Reed, Bobby Wade

Overview

Discography

Biography

Links

Lyrics

Album

Album: Prisoner of Love: The Romantic Billy Eckstine

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Artist: Billy Eckstine
Released: July 25, 2006
Label: Savoy Jazz

Song List

I Love the Rhythm in a Riff

2:51

Sophisticated Lady

2:54

She's Got the Blues for Sale

3:01

Jelly, Jelly

3:19

Lonesome Lover Blues

2:48

Tell Me Pretty Baby

2:57

Without a Song

2:53

Cool Breeze

2:54

Serenade in Blue

2:52

Oo Bop Sh'bam

3:04

In the Still of the Night

2:54

In My Solitude

2:53

It Ain't Like That

2:53

Prisoner of Love

2:55

Second Balcony Jump

2:56

Credits

Gene Ammons:

Sax (Tenor)

Sonny Criss:

Sax (Alto)

Miles Davis:

Trumpet

Billy Eckstine:

Trombone, Vocals

Dexter Gordon:

Sax (Tenor)

Wardell Gray:

Sax (Tenor)

Budd Johnson:

Sax (Alto)

Fats Navarro:

Trumpet

Leo Parker:

Sax (Baritone)

Cecil Payne:

Sax (Baritone)

Sonny Stitt:

Sax (Alto)

Linton Garner:

Piano

Ray Linn:

Trumpet

Tommy Potter:

Bass

Norris Turney:

Sax (Alto)

Herb Abramson:

Producer

Taswell Baird:

Trombone

Art Blakey:

Drums

Gail Brockman:

Trumpet

Johnny Cobb:

Sax (Alto)

Hobart Dotson:

Trumpet

Frank Driggs:

Photography

Jim Golden:

Piano

Shifty Henry:

Bass

Josh Jackson:

Sax (Tenor)

King Kolax:

Trumpet

John Malachi:

Piano

Shorty McConnell:

Trumpet

Chips Outcalt:

Trombone

Connie Wainwright:

Guitar

Bill Milkowski:

Liner Notes

Jerry Valentine:

Trombone

Howard H. Scott:

Trombone

Raymond Orr:

Trumpet

Walter Knox:

Trombone

Leonard Hawkins:

Trumpet

Bill McMahon:

Bass

John Cobbs:

Sax (Alto)

Tim Kennedy:

Drums

Richard Ellington:

Piano

TEddy Cypron:

Sax (Baritone)

Warren Bracken:

Piano

Arthur Simmons:

Sax (Tenor)

Iron Bulb:

Art Direction

Chris Carroll:

Art Direction