Billy Eckstine

I spent four and a half years with her on the road, and met people like Billy Eckstine, and on and on and on.

Mike Ragogna: Altair & Vega: A Conversation With Bob James, Plus Twilight Artist Lucy Schwartz's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

Also in Manhattan, a pristine studio with parquet floors in an Art Deco building near the No. 2 and 3 trains at 125th Street beckons buyers with its $85,000 price tag and historic pedigree—Eartha Kitt, Della Reese and Billy Eckstine once lived there.

Picking Over the Low End Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

It's the mellowest album to date by the veteran guitarist (who serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music at NYU), smoothly interspersing well-crafted originals and well-selected "covers" (as opposed to standards), including Abbey Lincoln 's "Throw It Away" and Billy Eckstine 's "I Want to Talk About You."

Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville Will Friedwald 2011

He often worked on the same bill with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and, in 1950, went on a national tour with singer Billy Eckstine, culminating in a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.

George Shearing, English-born jazz pianist whose 'Lullaby' became a standard, dies at 91 Matt Schudel 2011

Dameron was a passable pianist, but he found his calling first as an arranger, then as a composer who crafted not just melodies and chords but fully-instrumented charts for Harlan Leonard's Kansas City Orchestra, then Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie.

Madd About Tadd Con Chapman 2011

I spent four and a half years with her on the road, and met people like Billy Eckstine, and on and on and on.

Mike Ragogna: Altair & Vega: A Conversation With Bob James, Plus Twilight Artist Lucy Schwartz's Audio Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011

As Billy Eckstine said at the start of each of his shows at the Apollo, "It's good to be home."

No Myth: The Apollo's Power Will Friedwald 2011

It featured country performers such as Johnny Cash and Virginia's Patsy Cline as well as such jazz singers Billy Eckstine and Mel Torme.

Singer, sausage entrepreneur Jimmy Dean dies 2010

In 1947, Hank was the pianist in the legendary Billy Eckstine big band, which featured Dizzy Gillespie, drummer Art Blakey, bassist Oscar Pettiford, trumpeter Fats Navarro, singer Sarah Vaughan, saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Wardell Gray and other giants of the fast-evolving bebop movement in jazz.

Pianist Hank Jones 2010

Billy EckstineJazz crooner/trumpeter/trombonist and bandleader Billy Eckstine was born July 1914 in Pittsburgh into a big family.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I 2010