Billy Eckstine: I Ain't Like That-Quadromania Jazz Edition

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Billy Eckstine was a unique figure in jazz history. His warm baritone voice led to him becoming a big seller and a regular on the pop charts in the early 1950s. But earlier on, his dedication to jazz found him leading the first major bebop orchestra and keeping it going as long as possible.

Eckstine first came to fame with the Earl Hines big band during the later part of the Swing Era. In 1943 he helped convince Hines to hire such young modernists as altoist Charlie Parker (who was hired for the tenor chair), trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and singer Sarah Vaughan. The following year, Eckstine went out on his own, not as a single but as leader of his own modern big band. He kept it going for three years against the odds before having to give it up. Eckstine then became an influential pop star while always loving jazz and occasionally returning briefly.

The four-CD set I Ain't Like That is unusual in that the first two-CDs have most of the best recordings from Eckstine's bebop orchestra while the second two discs mostly cover his pop recordings of 1947-55. Among the highlights of the jazz dates are Blowing The Blues Away, I Love the Rhythm In A Riff and Second Balcony Jump while the pop hits include Everything I Have Is Yours and I Apologize. The jazz discs include plenty of ballads featuring Eckstine while the pop CDs also have extended versions of How High the Moon and St. Louis Blues by Eckstine with the Metronome All-Stars.

I Ain't Like That shows why Billy Eckstine has always been so highly rated by both the jazz and pop worlds.

-Scott Yanow

Contents

Imported from Europe

Remastered!!

CD 1 (TT: 49:10): I've Got a Date With Rhythm; I Stay in the Mood for You; Good Jelly Blues; Blowing the Blues Away; The Real Thing Happened to Me; If That's the Way You Feel; I Want to Talk About You; Lonesome Lover Blues; A Cottage for Sale; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; Last Night; A Penny for Your Thoughts; My Deep Blue Dream; Prisoner of Love; I Ain't Like That; I'm in the Mood for Love; You Call it Madness.

CD 2 (TT: 54:53): All I Sing is Blues; Long Long Journey; I Only Have Eyes for You; You're My Everything; The Jitney Man; Blue; Second Balcony Jump; Tell Me Pretty Baby; Love is the Thing; Without a Song; Cool Breeze; Don't Take Your Love From Me; Oo Bop Sh'bam; Oo Bop Sh'bam; In the Still of the Night; Jelly Jelly; My Silent Love; Time on My Hands; All the Things You Are.

CD 3 (TT: 58:55): Everything I Have is Yours; Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread); Blue Moon; Temptation; Mr. B's Blues; Somehow; Caravan; Bewildered; Body and Soul; My Foolish Heart; Ev'ryday (I Fall in Love); I Love You; Dedicated to You; You're All I Need; I Wanna Be Loved; You've Got Me Crying Again; I've Never Been in Love Before; As Long As I Live; I Left My Hat in Haiti; Here Comes the Blues.

CD 4 (TT: 72:03): Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries; Wonder Why; I'm a Fool to Want You; Taking a Chance on Love; You're Driving Me Crazy; I Apologize; Early Autumn; Tenderly; One for My Baby; If You Could See Me Now; Laura; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Mister You've Gone and Got the Blues; Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good); April in Paris; Coquette; Send My Baby Back to Me; How High the Moon (Parts 1 & 2); St. Louis Blues (Parts 1 & 2); Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Lost in Loveliness.

Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Edwards Bergman, Samuel Cytron, Walter Edelstein, David Frisina, George Kast, Nicholas Pisani, Misha Russell, Olcot Vail, Victor Bay, Harry Blostein, Henry Hill, Nathan Ross, Misha Russell, Marshall Sasson, Erno Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Felix Slatkin, Vocals; Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Webster, Shorty McConnell, Al Killian, Gail Brockman, Boonie Hazel, Fats Navarro, Raymon Orr, Kenny Dorham, Miles Davis, Hobart Dotson, King Kolax, Pete Candoli, Buddy Childers, Conrad Gozzo, Shorty Rogers, Lee Eldridge, Frank Beach, Sweets Edison, Vito Mangano, Ruby Zarchey, Manny Klein, Ray Lin, Trumpets; William Hinshaw, John Graas, John Cave, French Horns; Trummy Young, Howard Scott, Claude Jones, Gerald Valentine, Taswell Baird, Chippy Outcalt, Walter Knox, Robert Scott, James Jamison, Edward Kuczborski, Si Zentner, Harry Betts, Dick Kenny, Kai Winding, Milt Bernhart, James Priddy, Paul Tanner, Trombones; Gene Englund, Tuba; Bud Johnson, Jimmy Powell, John Jackson, Bill Frazier, Sonny Stitt, Johnny Cobbs, Buck Johnson, Norris Turney, Bob Williams, Wilbur Schwartz, Willie Smith, Alto Saxes; Wardell Gray, Thomas Crump, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Art Simmons, Josh Jackson, Jimmy Giuffre, Ted Nash, Babe Russin, Warne Marsh, Lester Young, Wardell Gray, Tenor Saxes; Rudy Rutherford, Leo Parker, Teddy Cypron, Cecil Payne, Chuck Gentry, Baritone Saxes; John La Porta, Elizabeth Greenspoon, Clarinets; Woody Herman, Alto Sax/Clarinet; Bernie Kaufman, Toots Mondello, Clarinets/Flutes; Art Drellingr, Hank Ross, Clarinets/Bass Clarinets/Tenor Saxes; Jules Kinsler, Harry Klee, Joe Koch, Warren Webb, Woodwinds; Clyde Hart, John Malachi, Richard Ellington, Jimmy Golden, Linton Garner, Milt Raskin, Jimmy Jones, Hal Schaeffer, George Shearing, Bobby Tucker, Teddy Wilson, Melvin Weschler, Arnold Ross, Pianos; Connie Wainwright, Al Hendrickson, Dick Evans, Barney Kessel, Billy Bauer, Robert Bain, Guitars; Oscar Pettiford, Tommy Potter, Bill McMahon, Artie Bernstein, Sid Weiss, John Mondragon, Al McKibbon, Red Callender, Eddie Safranski, Joe Comfort, Basses; Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey, Sam Weiss, Bunny Shawker, Louie Bellson, Denzil Best, Lee Young, Max Roach, Frank Carlson, Drums; Joe Roland, Terry Gibbs, Vibes; Ivan Lopez, Bongo; Paul Robyn, David Sterkin, Violas; Cyrus Witjas, Eleanor Slatkin, Cellos; Katharine Thompson, Harp; Sonny Burke's Orchestra; Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra; Buddy Baker's Orchestra; Russ Case's Orchestra; Joe Lipman's Orchestra; Woody Herman's Orchestra; Pete Rugolo's Orchestra; George Shearing Quintet; Nelson Riddle's Orchestra; Bobby Tucker Quartet; Lee Gordon Singers; The Metronome All-stars; Lou Bring's Orchestra; The Pied Pipers.