Billy Eckstine (singer)
with various personnel

TRACKS:
CD 1:
[02-05-45] with 20-piece band including Fats Navarro, Shorty McConnell, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Leo Parker, Tommy Potter & Art Blakey
[1] Lonesome Lover Blues (Eckstine-Valentine)
[2] A Cottage For Sale (Robinson-Conley)
[3] I Love The Rhythm In A Riff (Eckstine-Valentine)
[4] Last Night (Smith)

[09- & 10-45] with 17-piece band including Fats Navarro, Shorty McConnell, Gene Ammons, Tommy Potter & Art Blakey
[5] My Deep Blue Dream (Rivera-Troob)
[6] Prisoner Of Love (Columbo-Robin)
[7] It Ain't Like That (Eckstine)
[8] A Penny For Your Thoughts (Duke-Harburg)
[9] I'm In The Mood For Love (Fields-McHugh)
[10] You Call It Madness (Columbo-Conrad)
[11] All I Sing Is Blues (Gray)
[12] Long Long Journey (L. Feather)

[03-01-46] with 16-piece band including Shorty McConnell, Kenny Dorham, Gene Ammons, Richard Ellington & Art Blakey
[13] I Only Have Eyes For You (Warren-Dubin)
[14] You're My Everything (Warren-Dixon-Young)
[15] I've Got To Pass Your House (Brown)
[16] The Jitney Man (unknown)

[02- & 03-46] with 16-piece band including Fats Navarro, Leo Parker, Jimmy Golden, Gene Ammons & Art Blakey
[17] Blue (Silver-Kenney)
[18] Second Balcony Jump (Eckstine-Valentine)
[19] Gloomy Sunday (Lewis-Seress)
[20] Tell Me Pretty Baby (Eckstine)
[21] Love Is The Things (Young-Washington)
[22] Without A Song (Youmans-Rose)
[23] Cool Breeze (Eckstine-Gillespie-Dameron)
[24] Don't Take Your Love From Me (Nemo)

CD 2:
[05-10-46] with 16-piece band including Miles Davis, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Cecil Payne, Tommy Potter & Art Blakey
[1] Oop Bop Sh'Bam (Gillespie-Fuller)
[2] I Love the Loveliness Of You (Schell-Walker)
[3] In The Still of the Night (Porter)
[4] Jelly Jelly (Hines-Eckstine)

[06-10-46] with 16-piece band [plus strings] including Miles Davis, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Cecil Payne, Tommy Potter & Art Blakey
[5] My Silent Love (Suesse-Heyman)
[6] Time On My Hands (Adamson-Youmens)
[7] All The Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein)
[8] In A Sentimental Mood (Ellington-Parish)

[21- & 27-04-47] with 9-piece band including Sonny Stitt & Wardell Gray
[9] All Of Me (Simms-Marks)
[10] Where Are You? (Adamson-McHugh)
[11] Prelude To A Kiss (Gordon-Mills-Ellington)
[12] She's Got The Blues For Sale (unknown)
[13] What's New (Haggart-Burke)
[14] Serenade In Blue (Warren-Gordon)
[15] Solitude (Ellington-Mills)
[16] Sophisticated Lady (Ellington-Mills)
[17] I Surrender Dear (Barris-Clifford)
[18] Memories Of You (Razaf-Blake)
[19] Our Love (Bernier-Emmerich)
[20] There Are Such Things (Adams-Baer-Meyer)
[21] Say It Isn't So (Berlin)
[22] I Do, Do You? (Andrews-Rivera)
[23] Blues (Eckstine-Valentine)

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