One of the least known albums recorded by singer Billy Eckstine is one of his best—Mr. B in Paris. Recorded for Britain's Felsted label while Eckstine was on tour in Europe between releases for ...

They didn’t come any smoother than Billy Eckstine. That he was a great singer goes without saying — few baritones have ever equaled the sort of warm tone and mellifluous phrasing that was his stock-in ...

Billy Eckstine was one of the hardest working performers of the swing era. Perhaps, then, it might come as a surprise to learn that the vocalist only ever collaborated with the venerable Count Basie ...

Harry Warren Papers, 1909-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Jophe Jones and Julia Riva. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no ...

Singer Billy Eckstine came to prominence at a time when jazz and black popular music enjoyed fluid interchanges. Big band and jazz orchestras, urban- blues vocalists and incipient rhythm and blues ...

We pay tribute to the life and music of Billy Eckstine this week on Afterglow, in celebration of the singer's centennial. Eckstine had what one writer has described as "a deep blue dream of a voice," ...