Bobby Tucker
Biography
Bobby Tucker (born Robert Nathaniel Tucker; January 8, 1923 – April 12, 2007) was a pianist and arranger during the jazz era from the 1940s into the 1960s. He is most famous for being Billie Holiday's accompanist from 1946 to 1949 and Billy Eckstine's from 1950 to 1993.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lady Sings The Blues
1956
The Wiz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1978
Billie Holiday On Verve 1946-1959
1985
The Big Tenor (The Complete Ben Webster On EmArcy)
1985
Lady Day
1984
16 Classic Tracks
1982
Don't Explain
1982
1942-1951-1954
1982
Basie/Eckstine, Inc.
1959
Recital By Billie Holiday
1956
Billie Holiday
1954
Credited work
491 releases · 83 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 696
- Other credits · 64
Studios: Carnegie Hall · Radio City Music Hall · Yankee Stadium · Philharmonic Hall, New York
Frequent collaborators
- Billie Holiday
- Various
- Billy Eckstine
- Wardell Gray
- Tony Bennett
- Count Basie
- Paul Quinichette
- Sonny Criss