Billy Eckstine - Prisoner of Love: The Romantic Billy Eckstine

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Album Details

Title: Prisoner of Love: The Romantic Billy Eckstine
Artist: Billy Eckstine
Release Date: 7/25/2006
Label: Savoy Jazz
Album Type(s): Greatest Hits
UPCs: 795041760722, 0795041760722
Genre: Vocal Music
Styles: Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Moods: Elegant, Exuberant, Intimate, Sophisticated, Stylish, Amiable/Good-Natured, Confident, Laid-Back/Mellow, Refined/Mannered, Reserved, Romantic, Smooth, Street-Smart
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 1
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

I Love the Rhythm in a Riff
Sophisticated Lady
She's Got the Blues for Sale
Jelly, Jelly
Lonesome Lover Blues
Tell Me Pretty Baby
Without a Song
Cool Breeze
Serenade in Blue
Oo Bop Sh'bam
In the Still of the Night
In My Solitude
It Ain't Like That
Prisoner of Love
Second Balcony Jump

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
2006	CD	Savoy Jazz	17607

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Album Review

This 15-track set puts together some amazing performances by Billy Eckstine's band from the early '40s when he was leading one of the more intense, smoking bands on the scene. Some of his players during these years included Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, and Kenny Dorham, just to name a few. The Eckstine band was sophisticated, jumping, and they swung like mad no matter the tune. Here, of course, the emphasis is on Eckstine's vocals, his smooth as silk baritone that could sing a ballad like Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," or a deep swinging blues by Doc Pomus ("She Got the Blues for Sale"). There's scat, solid jazz balladry, and jumping, tough-hitting blues here. Highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
Art Blakey	Drums
Budd Johnson	Sax (Alto)
Connie Wainwright	Guitar
Fats Navarro	Trumpet
Gail Brockman	Trumpet
Herb Abramson	Audio Production
Jerry Valentine	Trombone
John Malachi	Piano
Leo Parker	Sax (Baritone)
Shorty McConnell	Trumpet
Sonny Stitt	Sax (Alto)
Taswell Baird	Trombone