Basie/Eckstine Incorporated

Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
Studio album by
Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra
Released 1959
Recorded May 22, 1959 – July 28, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length 37:46
Label Roulette
Producer Teddy Reig
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Billy Eckstine chronology
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(1958) 		Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
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Basie/Eckstine Incorporated is a 1959 studio album featuring Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra. It was released by Roulette Records and marked Eckstine and Basie's only recorded collaboration.

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

Production