Basie/Eckstine Incorporated

Basie/Eckstine Incorporated is a 1959 studio album featuring Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra. It was released by Roulette Records and marked Eckstine and Basie's only recorded collaboration.

Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
Studio album by
Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra
Released1959
RecordedMay 22, 1959 – July 28, 1959
GenreJazz
Length37:46
LabelRoulette
ProducerTeddy Reig
Count Basie Orchestra chronology
Breakfast Dance and Barbecue
(1959)		 Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
(1959)		 Strike Up the Band
(1959)
Billy Eckstine chronology
Billy Eckstine's Imagination
(1958)		 Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
(1959)		 No Cover, No Minimum
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

Track listing
  1. "Stormy Monday Blues" - 3:11
  2. "Lonesome Lover Blues" (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) - 3:08
  3. "Blues, the Mother of Sin" (Eckstine, Sid Kuller) - 3:41
  4. "Jelly, Jelly" (Eckstine, Earl Hines) - 3:02
  5. "Don't Cry Baby" (James P. Johnson, Saul Bernie, Stella Unger) - 3:31
  6. "Trav'lin' All Alone" (J. C. Johnson) - 2:54
  7. "Little Mama" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 3:29
  8. "I Want a Little Girl" (Billy Moll, Murray Mencher) - 3:25
  9. "Drifting" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) - 3:59
  10. "Song of the Wanderer" (Neil Moret) - 3:22
  11. "Piano Man" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 4:04

Personnel
The Count Basie Orchestra

Production

Notes
  1. Nastos, Michael G. "Basie and Eckstine, Inc". allmusic. Retrieved September 14, 2010.
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 20. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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