Biography
William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award "for performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording". His recording of "I Apologize" (MGM, 1951) was given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. The New York Times described him as an "influential band leader" whose "suave bass-baritone" and "full-throated, sugary approach to popular songs inspired singers such as Earl Coleman, Johnny Hartman, Joe Williams, Arthur Prysock, and Lou Rawls."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ballads
1963
Scenery = シーナリィ
1976
Soultrane
1958
Go!
1962
It's My Life, Baby!
1966
Live At Birdland
1964
The Great Blues Men
1972
1963: New Directions
2018
Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things
1968
At Newport
1957
Live At The Half Note
1984
The Gentle Side Of John Coltrane
1975
T-Bone Blues
1959
Newport '63
1993
Welcome To Love
1991
Take Love Easy
1974
Texas Twister
1973
John Coltrane
1972
Live At The Cafe Au Go Go
1966
Tender Loving Care
1966
Kind Of Coltrane 1926 - 1967
2009
Joe Turner
1981
Landslide
1980
Kabsha
1980
Credited work
1,987 releases · 360 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 2,673
- Other credits · 77
- Production · 55
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Birdland · Newport Jazz Festival · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey