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Billy Eckstine

Pop music
Jazz
Crooner
The Pittsburgh-born singer and bandleader Billy Eckstine started his career in 1939 with the influential Earl Hines playing trumpet and singing with Hines' Grand Terrace Orchestra. He played on the orchestra's version of 'Stormy Monday Blues' and from there his reputation began to grow. By 1944 Eckstine felt confident enough to start his own big band - The Billy Eckstine Orchestra, an ensemble widely credited with being the first bop big band and served as a springboard for the careers of many notable jazz performers including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Charl...
Songs
Blue Moon
Blue MoonBilly Eckstine

Quadromania: Billy Eckstine - I Ain't Like That

3:11

Weaver of Dreams
Weaver of DreamsNelson Riddle and Billy Eckstine

Introducing Kenny Burrell

3:22

You Don't Know What Love Is
You Don't Know What Love IsBilly Eckstine and Earl Hines & His Orchestra

With Vocal Refrain - You Must Have Been A Beautful Baby

I Hear a Rhapsody
I Hear a RhapsodyBilly Eckstine

Billy Eckstine & Mel Torme

2:37

Prelude to a Kiss
Prelude to a KissBilly Eckstine

The Legendary Big Band

2:52

You're Driving Me Crazy
You're Driving Me CrazyBilly Eckstine

Quadromania: Billy Eckstine - I Ain't Like That

3:11

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