Basie and Eckstine, Inc.

Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
Studio album by Billy Eckstine with Count Basie
Released 1959 (1959)
Recorded May 22, 1959 – July 28, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length 37:46
Label Roulette Records (Cat. no. SR-52029)
Producer Michael Cuscuna
Billy Eckstine with Count Basie chronology
Imagination
(1958)		 Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
(1959)		 Billy and Sarah
(1959)
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Basie/Eckstine Incorporated is a 1959 album featuring Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra. It was released by Roulette Records, then later reissued by Capital Records.

Track listing

  1. "Stormy Monday Blues" - 3:11
  2. "Lonesome Lover Blues" (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) - 3:08
  3. "Blues, the Mother of Sin" (Eckstine, Sid Kuller) - 3:41
  4. "Jelly, Jelly" (Eckstine, Earl Hines) - 3:02
  5. "Don't Cry Baby" (James P. Johnson, Saul Bernie, Stella Unger) - 3:31
  6. "Trav'lin' All Alone" (J.C. Johnson) - 2:54
  7. "Little Mama" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 3:29
  8. "I Want a Little Girl" (Billy Moll, Murray Mencher) - 3:25
  9. "Drifting" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) - 3:59
  10. "Song of the Wanderer" (Neil Moret) - 3:22
  11. "Piano Man" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 4:04

Personnel

The Count Basie Orchestra

Notes

  1. ^ Nastos, Michael G.. "Basie and Eckstine, Inc.". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r160996. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 
Billy Eckstine albums

Billy Eckstine Sings (1950) · Tenderly (1952) · Blues for Sale (1954) · Favourites (1954) · I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart (1954) · Songs by Billy Eckstine (1954) · The Great Mr. B (1954) · The Love Songs of Mr. B (1954) · I Surrender, Dear (1955) · Mister B With A Beat (1955) · Rendezvous (1955) · That Old Feeling (1955) · Billy's Best! (1958) · Billy Eckstine's Imagination (1958) · Imagination (1958) · Basie and Eckstine, Inc. (1959) · Billy and Sarah (1959) · No Cover, No Minimum (1960) · Once More with Feeling (1961) · At Basin St. East (1961) · Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan Sing Irving Berlin (1961) · Broadway, Bongos and Mr. B (1961) · Don't Worry 'bout Me (1962) · 12 Great Movies (1964) · Modern Sound of Mr. B (1964) · Prime of My Life (1965) · My Way (1966) · For Love of Ivy (1969) · Feel the Warm (1971) · Moment (1972) · Senior Soul (1972) · She Walked into My Life (1974) · Memento Brasiliero (1978) · Everything I Have Is Yours: The MGM Years (1985)  · Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986) · Everything I Have Is Yours (1994) · I Apologize (1995) · How High the Moon (2002) · Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra (2002) · Stardust (2002) · The Motown Years (2003) · Love Songs (2004) · Timeless (2005)