Billy Eckstine (In the Still of the Night) and 11 similar items

Additional Information about In the Still of the Night by Billy Eckstine (CD, Jan-2000, Prism) Album Features UPC: 5014293640725 Artist: Billy Eckstine Format: CD Release Year: 2000 Record Label: Prism Genre: Bebop, Jazz Instrument, Pop Track Listing 1. I'm in the Mood For Love 2. Time on My Hands 3. All the Things You Are 4. What's New 5. All of Me 6. Serenade in Blue 7. Cottage For Sale 8. Prisoner of Love 9. I Stay in the Mood For You 10. I'm Falling For You 11. Love Is the Thing 12. You're My Everything 13. Sophisticated Lady 14. In the Still of the Night 15. I Love the Loveliness of You 16. Where Are You 17. It Ain't Like That 18. You Call It Madness 19. Solitude 20. In a Sentimental Mood 21. My Silent Love 22. Prelude to a Kiss 23. Without a Song 24. Penny For Your Thoughts 25. Blue Details Distributor: MSI Music Distribution Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes British budget reissue label Prism Leisure takes advantage of the 50-year European copyright limit to assemble its own versions of vintage recordings drawn from transfers of old records. This collection, released in 1998 and therefore able to use recordings made up to 1947, collects some of Billy Eckstine's earliest recordings from the mid-1940s for DeLuxe and especially National Records. This was a period when Eckstine was leading an innovative big band, though his recordings do not, for the most part, reflect its innovations. Still, some of his star sidemen do turn up. For example, on the R B hit recording of "I Stay in the Mood for You," trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie makes a strong impression as part of what was known on record as the DeLuxe All Star Band. Miles Davis is featured on the National Records version of Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady" that was recorded in 1946 and became a pop chart entry in 1948. Still, jazz content is not what these tracks are really about. They are pop standards on which Eckstine exercises his bass-baritone effectively, with his band getting to make instrumental statements in the margins around him here and there. The tracks have clearly been transferred from old 78's, as surface noise is sometimes audible, and the overall sound quality is only mediocre to good. Of course, there are no annotations to allow the listener to figure out the sources of the tracks. But the price is quite low, and there are more than 70 minutes of music on the disc. ~ William Ruhlmann