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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).
1940: Earl Hines – Billy Eckstine [Record 1: Stormy Monday Blues // Water Boy; Record 2: I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) // Somehow; Record 3: Jelly, Jelly // Skylark] (RCA Victor) 3x78rpm album set; 1949: Billy Eckstine Sings – recorded 1945–1947; 1950: Songs By Billy Eckstine ; 1951: Billy Eckstine Favorites (MGM)
4. März 2024 · 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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8. März 2018 · Der amerikanische Sänger und Jazzmusiker Billy Eckstine (dpa picture alliance) Im Winter 1942 wurde Billy Eckstine der Sänger im Orchester von Earl Hines. Er hatte ein Faible für...
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 · From 1934 until 1939, Eckstine — who changed the spelling of his name because a club owner thought it looked “ too Jewish ” — performed as a vocalist with small dance bands in the mid-Atlantic region. 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
26. Nov. 2020 · Forgotten Jazz Orchestras: Billy Eckstine. Written by Lynn Rene Bayley November 26, 2020 jazz history, News. 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 ...
