Latest Release
- 23 JAN 2024
- 22 Songs
- Billy's Best · 1958
- Essential Hits · 1998
- Billy's Best · 1958
- Billy's Best · 1958
- Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best of the MGM Years · 1958
- At Basin Street East (Live) · 1961
- The Early Years Vol. 7 - The First Bebop Big Band (1945) · 2008
- Billy Eckstine Sings · 1949
- The Savoy Sessions: Mister B. And the Band · 1976
- Big Sixteen · 2013
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- A legendary crooner with operatic power and a bebop sensibility.
Live Albums
- 2014
- 2014
Appears On
- Earl Hines and His Orchestra & Billy Eckstine
About Billy Eckstine
Debonair jazz vocalist and bandleader Billy Eckstine was a major influence on generations of singers across the pop and jazz spectrum. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Eckstine got his first major break as a singer with Earl "Fatha" Hines's Chicago band in the late 1930s. By the mid-'40s, Eckstine was leading his own big band, which featured a rotating line-up of soon-to-be jazz legends (including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker, among many others). Eckstine eventually struck out on his own and established himself as one of the premier balladeers in American popular music, remaining a major musical figure up until his death in 1993.
- HOMETOWN
- Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- BORN
- 8 July 1914
- GENRE
- Jazz