Live at Basin St. East [Live]

1. La Bamba

2. Alright, Okay, You Win

3. Stagger Lee

4. Be Careful, It’s My Heart

5. Jezebel

6. Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home 7. Hello, Dolly!

7. You Need Hands

8. Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So

9. Personality

10. If I Had A Hammer

11. What’d I Say

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1962 Live Guard Session & At Basin St. East

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divine,divine,divine!!!

1962 Live Guard Session & At Basin St. East
Della Reese , and Duke Ellington
Manufacturer: Jazz Band
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

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Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000042NY
Release Date: 1994-05-25

Tracks:

Introduction
Comes Once In A Lifetime
Sophisticated Lady
Chopin's Etude in E
Take The 'A' Train
Bye, Bye Blackbird
Satin Doll
Don't You Know
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
A Foggy Day In London Town
Mood Indigo
That Reminds Me
Taffy Twist
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Jam With Sam
Introduction
Afro Bossa
New Rockin' In Rhythm
East Saint Louis Toodle-oo

Customer Reviews:

divine,divine,divine!!!.......1999-10-02

Della Reese is the ultimate performer.Her voice is beyond description:amazingly powerful,expressive with flawless elocution and most original articulation,that requires much taste to be appreciated by real connoissers!Each song is a unique composition and none is like the other.After you listened to Della,the other blues or jazz stars seem colourless,despite their own qualities,they all are outcasted by Della's incredible temperament and talent.She is the alpha and the omega of song:she can sing everything,from gospel,blues to jazz and even classical music!!Della reese is without contest the BEST singer in the world!She has the trumpets of Jericho in her voice,and sings like an angel!She makes songs alive,she is not only an entertainer (actually the best) but she delivers a message in singing,of life,passion and joy.She is true and authentic and once you heard her,she put a spell on you forever!Moreover,she is gorgeous,and charismatic!Della Reese is the ultimate diva!

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Too bad the rest is lost!
"I was the Fabian of the '40s."

At Basin St. East : Live!
Billy Eckstine w , and Quincy Jones
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

All Right Okay You Win
Medley: Announcement, I'm Falling For You, Fool That I Am, Everything I Have Is Yours
In The Still Of The Night (Band Chaser)
Ellington Medley: Announcement, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, I'm Just A Lucky So & So...
Work Song
Ma (She's Making Eyes At Me)(Band Chaser)

Customer Reviews:

Too bad the rest is lost!.......2007-02-26

To my ears this is Eckstine's best: no strings, no schmaltz, Q's early sixties jazz band makes a wonderful background for Mr.B's voice .It is just too bad that in spite of reasearch the rest of this live recording is lost. Did no one involved in the sessions ever keep a tape? A misery.
Whatever the lenghth this should be re-released.jc

"I was the Fabian of the '40s.".......2006-05-29

In this CD, an excerpt from a rare live concert in 1961, Billy Eckstine introduces himself to his audience as "the Fabian of the '40s," a poignant comment on this giant's fading singing career. Immensely popular with audiences both black and white, Eckstine in the 1940s was a crooner of romantic ballads, many of them huge hits, in addition to being one of the great be-bop leaders. His band in 1943 featured Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Sarah Vaughan, as a pianist and occasional singer, with Miles Davis and Art Blakey joining shortly afterward. Then tastes changed.

In this short CD (about 30 minutes, which costs it a star), Eckstine is at his best, his rich, deep voice and controlled vibrato giving passion to a medley of his hits--"I'm Falling for You," "Fool That I Am," and "Everything I Have is Yours." His phrasing and control of tempo allow him to exploit the lyrics to wring every possible nuance from them. "All Right Okay, You Win," a lively, uptempo song features Quincy Jones on trumpet playing a subtle accompaniment that does not compete with Eckstine's voice.

A Duke Ellington medley, done with Ellington in the audience, features "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So," "Caravan," and "Sophisticated Lady," with Patti Bowen's piano accompaniment kept softly in the background. The showpiece of the CD, however, is "The Work Song," an impassioned story of a man sentenced to a chain gang with the Quincy Jones Orchestra supplying dramatic highlights.

Recording only rarely after the early 1960s, Eckstine became more an influence on the music of others (notably Tony Bennett) than a performer himself. He never crossed over into TV as Nat King Cole did, and he did not take off his jacket and tie and adapt to the loose jazz and blues styles of the intimate clubs (though it is easy to imagine him becoming a blues singer). Nowadays, if one does a search for Billy Eckstine on this site, many recordings appear, but of the ten on the first page, only five have any reviews at all, a rarity among CDs for established performers. With one of the best voices in the business, Billy Eckstine, once a rival of Sinatra in the hit record department, is now remembered primarily by those of us with long memories--and by the dozens of performers whose work he influenced. n Mary Whipple