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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
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Climb Ev'ry MountainBilly Eckstine

The Motown Years

Christmas Eve
Christmas EveBilly Eckstine

Verve Presents: The Very Best of Christmas Jazz

3:05

Passing Strangers
Passing StrangersBilly Eckstine

Jazz Masters Vol.22

2:38

Passing Strangers
Passing StrangersBilly Eckstine

All The Published Sides

Prisoner of Love
Prisoner of LoveBilly Eckstine

The Savoy Sessions: Billy Eckstine - Mister B. and the Band

2:12

Blue Moon
Blue MoonBilly Eckstine

Quadromania: Billy Eckstine - I Ain't Like That

3:11

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