Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 8084 705X
https://isni.org/isni/000000008084705X
Name: 
B (Mr)
Billie Eckstine
Billy Eckstein
Billy Eckstien
Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine (American musician)
Billy Eckstine (Amerikaans zanger (1914-1993))
Billy Eckstine (cantante statunitense)
Billy Eckstine (US-amerikanischer Jazzsänger und Bandleader)
Billy Eekstine
Billy Eskstine
Eckstein, Billy
Eckstein, William Clarence
Eckstine, Billie
Eckstine, Billy
Eckstine, Billy & Quartones The
Eckstine, William Clarance
Eckstine, William Clarence
Ekstein, Billy
Mr. B
Экстайн, Билли
Dates: 
1914-1993
Creation class: 
Computer file
Language material
Musical sound recording
Projected medium
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
lyricist
performer
singer
vocalist
Related names: 
Armstrong, Louis (1900-1971)
Basie, Count (1904-1984)
Bauer, Billy (co-performer)
Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra (isMemberOf)
Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra Affiliation (see also from)
Bradley, Will (co-performer)
Carter, Benny (co-performer)
Childers, Buddy (co-performer)
Eldridge, Roy (co-performer)
Fitzgerald, Ella
Franklin Mint Records Society
Gibbs, Terry (co-performer)
Harris, Bill (co-performer)
Hawkins, Coleman (co-performer)
LaPorta, John (co-performer)
Marsh, Warne (co-performer)
May, Billy (1916-2004)
May, Edward William (1916-2004)
McEachern, Murray (1915-1982)
Metronome All Stars (isMemberOf)
Naxos Digital Services
Polygram-Division Phonogram (19..-1995)
Roach, Max (co-performer)
Rodor, Jean (m. 1967)
Safranski, Eddie (co-performer)
Shaw University (isAffiliatedWith)
Sinatra, Frank (1915-1998)
Steve Kuhn Trio
Tormé, Mel (1925-1999)
Vaughan, Sarah (1924-1990)
Washington, Dinah (1924-1963)
Williams, Joe (1918-1999)
Wilson, Teddy (co-performer)
Winding, Kai (co-performer)
Young, Lester (co-performer)
Titles: 
2nd Balcony jump
Ain’t Like That, I
All of me
All the things you are
American in Paris, An
American Songbook
Apologize (live on the Ed Sullivan Show, April 8, 1951), I
Autumn Leaves
Babes in Arms
Basie/Eckstine Inc. [SR] p1994:
Billy Eckstine Favorites
Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter
Billy's best!
Blowing the Blues Away, 1944–1953
Blues for Sale
BLUES, THE MOTHER OF SIN
Boppin’ With “B”
Broadway Bongos and Mr. “B”
Capitol's great gentlemen of song
Caravan
Christmas Eve
Christmas jazz.
Chronological Classics: Billy Eckstine 1947, The
Cocktail Hour
Compact Jazz: Billy Eckstine
Complete Savoy Recordings
Cool Breeze
Cool Mr. B, The
Count Basie at the Portland Auditorium [SR] 1953-1954:
Count Basie vocal years, The
Dedicated to You
Didn’t We?
DON'T CRY BABY
Don’t Worry ’Bout Me & Broadway, Bongos and Mr. “B”
DRIFTING
Ev’ry Day
Everything I have is yours, 1994.
Everything I Have Is Yours: The Best of the M-G-M Years
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
For Love of Ivy
Gareau et Coutu. Tessa, 1947
Gloomy sunday
Good Jelly Blues
Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good), I
greatest jazz recordings of all time
Here’s That Rainy Day
How high the moon
I'm falling for you
I’m in the Mood for Love
I’ve Got the World on a String
If she walked into my life
Imagination
In a Sentimental Mood
(In My) Solitude
In the still of the night
Irving Berlin songbook
Jazz in the charts
Jazz Masters
Jazz ’Round Midnight
Jelly, Jelly
Jukebox hits, 1943-1953
Knickerbocker Holiday
Lady, Be Good
Legendary Big Band, The
Little Mama
Lonesome lover blues
Love Songs Of Mr. “B”, The
Love the Loveliness of You, I
Magnificent Mr. B, The
Medley
Memories of You
Mister B. and the band
modern sound of Mr. B, The
Mostly Coltrane Steve Kuhn Trio ; w/ Joe Lovano.
Motown Years, The
Mr. B. and the Band: The Savoy Sessions
Mr. B’s Blues
My deep blue dream
My Foolish Heart
My melancholy baby
My Silent Love
My Way
New York, New York
No cover, no minimum
Now Singing in 12 Great Movies
Once more with feeling
Oop Bop Sh'Bam
Out in the Cold Again
Piano man
Prime of My Life, The
Prisoner of Love: The Romantic Billy Eckstine
real thing happened to me
Rhythm in a Riff
Round about midnight (3 min 12 s)
Sarah Vaughan New York 1944-1948
Second Balcony Jump
Senior Soul
Serenade in Blue
Sitting by the Window
SIXTIES
Skylark
Slender Thread / Wish You Were Here
SONG OF THE WANDERER
Sophisticated Ladies
Sophisticated lady
St. Louis Blues
Stardust
Step right up
Steppin'pretty
Stitches
Stolen moments
Stormy Feel the warm
Stormy monday blues
Stormy weather (3 min 40 s)
Strike up the band
Summertime
Sweet georgia Brown
Swing out
Take the " A " train
Tangerine
Tell me pretty baby (2 min 55 s)
Tempus fugue-it
Tenderly
Thank You Love / Is Anyone Here Goin’ My Way
That old feeling
There'll be some changes made
Third wind
Time on my hands (2 min 50 s)
Together
Tonsillectomy
TRAV'LIN' ALL ALONE
Undecided
Verve Jazz Masters 22
VOCALISTS
Vultee special
want a little girl, I
Want to Talk About You, I
way you look tonight
Weakness
Wee
What Kind of Fool Am I? (live on the Ed Sullivan Show, July 22, 1962)
What more is there to say
What’s New?
When the saints go marchin'in (3 min 56 s)
Whisper not
Whiteman stomp
Without a song (2 min 50 s)
Wizard of Oz, The
Wolverine blues
Wonder Why / I've Been Blessed, I
wonderful guy
Yancey's last ride
You call it madness but I call it love
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
You Don’t Know What Love Is
You don't mean me no good
You’re All I Need
You're just in love (3 min 42 s)
You're my everything (2 min 33 s)
Yours to command
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Eckstine, Billy; William Clarence Eckstein; Mr. B.; bandleader, jazz musician, jazz singer; born 08 July 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; B.A. from Shaw University (Raleigh, N.C.) (1947); was Earl Hines's principal vocalist (1939-1943); became with the with national hit, Jelly, Jelly, popularizing the new Earl Hines Orchestra (1940); continued success with song Skylark (1942); established own band, known as the first true bebop big band (1944); went solo as one of the first artists to sign with the newly established MGM Records (1947); was widely considered the country's most popular vocalist (1949-1950); died 08 March 1993 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)
Associated Group: Shaw University MGM Records naf
BGMI, Aug. 22, 2003 (Billy Eckstein)
Basie, C. Basie/Eckstine Inc. [SR] p1994 label (Billie Eckstine)
Basie, C. Count Basie at the Portland Auditorium [SR] 1953-1954 insert (Billy Eckstine)
Biog. resources, Aug. 22, 2003 (Billy Eckstine; Also known as: William Clarence Eckstein, William Clarence Eckstine; Birth: July 8, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Penn.; Death: March 8, 1993 in Pittsburgh, Penn.)
Jazz Jazz vocals
Jazz musicians Singers Band directors
LC data base, 6-3-91 (hdg.: Eckstine, Billy)
NUCMC data from Virginia Union University for Henderson, S.L. Photographs, 1912-1989 (Billy Ekstein)
New Grove dict. of jazz, 1994 (Eckstine, Billy (Eckstein, William Clarence; Mr. B); b. July 8, 1914, Pittsburgh, d. Mar. 8, 1993, Pittsburgh; singer and bandleader)
Washington Post, 03-09-93 (b. William Clarence Eckstein, Pittsburgh; d. 03-08-93)
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