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Seine Auftritte führten ihn bis Chicago, wo ihn Budd Johnson 1939 an Earl Hines empfahl; dieser stellte ihn in seinem Grand Terrace Orchestra als Sänger und Trompeter ein. Er komponierte den Bluesklassiker Jelly, Jelly und gemeinsam mit Earl Hines den Stormy Monday Blues (1942).
Heading to Chicago, Illinois, Eckstine joined Earl Hines ' Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939, staying with the band as vocalist and trumpeter until 1943. [4] . By that time, Eckstine had begun to make a name for himself through the Hines band's juke-box hits, such as "Stormy Monday Blues", and his own "Jelly, Jelly".
In 1944 Eckstine formed his own band, which in its three-year existence gave strong impetus to the new bebop style by featuring the talents of Gillespie, Parker, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, Tadd Dameron, Art Blakey, and others.
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26. Nov. 2020 · In the years between 1939 and 1945, three different but somewhat related styles of music grew out of swing: rhythm and blues, spearheaded by Louis Jordan, the early-1940s Lionel Hampton band with Illinois Jacquet on tenor sax, and gospel-blues shouter Sister Rosetta Tharpe; progressive swing, harmonically and rhythmically more advanced, which ca...
Billy Eckstine (1914–93) Born William Clarence Eckstein in Pittsburgh, Billy Eckstine began his career as a singer in Buffalo in 1934, worked his way to Chicago and became the principal vocalist in pianist Earl Hines’ orchestra there in 1939, remaining with the band until 1943.
11. Juni 2018 · He joined the Earl Hines Orchestra as a soloist in 1939, learned to play the trumpet, and met many of the pioneers of modern jazz. Eckstine ’ s first hit was “ Jelly, Jelly, ” released in 1940. He followed that success with other blues tunes and romantic ballads such as “ Somehow, ” “ You Don ’ t Know What Love Is ...
In 1944 he recorded a Tadd Dameron arrangement of his own composition, “I Want to Talk About You,” a sublime statement of love subsequently recorded by the tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and others. Sometime around 1944, Eckstine changed his surname’s spelling to “Eckstine.”
