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Billy Eckstine, Jazz Vocalist and Band Leader

ENCYCLOPEDIA & DICTIONARY ARTICLES 

Editor: Don Michael Randel 
Title: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music 
Imprint: Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1996 
Page: 239 
Location: Music Library Reference ML105 H38 1996

Editor: Colin Larkin 
Title: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music 
Imprint: Middlesex, England: Guinness Publishing, 1995 
Page: Vol. 2, 1301-2 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 P66 G84 1995 v. 2

Editor: Barry Kernfeld 
Title: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 
Imprint: New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994 
Page: Vol. 1, 322-323 
Location: : Music Library Reference ML102 J3 N48 1994

Editor: Donald Clarke 
Title: The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 
Imprint: New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1989. 
Page: 373 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 P66 P46 1989

Authors: Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, and Brian Priestley 
Title: Jazz: The Essential Companion.
Imprint: New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1988. 
Page: 149 
Location: Music Library Reference ML102 J3 C32 1988

Editors: H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie 
Title: The New Grove Dictionary of American music. 
Imprint: London, England: Macmillan, 1986. 
Page: Vol. 2, pages 8-9 
Location: Music Library Reference ML101 U6 N48 1986

Editor: Charles Eugene Claghorn 
Title: Biographical Dictionary of Jazz 
Imprint: Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982 
Page: 98 
Location: Music Library Reference ML105 L59 B5 1982

Editor: Stanley Sadie 
Title: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 
Imprint: London, England: MacMillan Publishing, 1980 
Page: v. 5, p. 827 
Location: Music Library Reference ML 100 N48 v. 5 

SHORT ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Article: The Birth of Bebop--A Social and Musical History. 
Periodical: NOTES - MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 
Citation: 55:1+ 
Date: September 1998 
Location: Music Stacks (Bound) ML27 U5 M695 ser. 2

Article: Jazz: The Billy Strayhorn Suite-- Jazz and cocktails (versions of Lush Life).  W. Friedwald. 
Periodical: VILLAGE VOICE 
Citation: 37:J11+ 
Date: June 23, 1992 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Artists in Concert. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 103:36 
Date: July 20, 1991 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Caught. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 57:53 
Date: March 1990 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Stacks at Joyner Library (Bound) ML3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest
through NCLive

Article: Four Queens, Las Vegas. 
Periodical: VARIETY 
Citation: 328:93 
Date: August 12 1987 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms

Article: Talent in action. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 98:43 
Date: March 01 1986 
Location: Music Library Microforms

Article: Jazz blue notes (album, I Am a Singer).  S. Sutherland and P. Keepnews. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 97:54 
Date: January 12 1985 
Location: Music Library Microforms

FEATURE ARTICLES

Article: Obituary 
Periodical: NOTES 
Citation: 50:1342 
Date: no. 4 1994 
Location: Music Library Stacks ML27 U5 M695 ser.2

Article: Obituary 
Periodical: MUSICIAN 
Citation: n182:98 
Date: Dec. `93 
Location: Music Library Stacks ML1 M328

Article: Jazz `93: The year in lists.  G. Giddins. 
Periodical: VILLAGE VOICE 
Citation: 38:J3-5 
Date: Nov. 23, 1993 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Obituary 
Periodical: VARIETY 
Citation: 350:76 
Date: March 15, 1993 
Location: Joyner Library Microforms

Article: Billy Eckstine, vocalist and band leader, dies. F. Bouchard. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 60:11 
Date: June 1993 
Location: Music Library Microforms, Music Library Stacks ML3561 J3 D64x and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Billy Eckstine dies at 78: band, voice made history.  J. Levenson. 
Periodical: BILLBOARD 
Citation: 105:10+ 
Date: March 15, 1993 
Location: Music Library Microforms and Bell & Howell Proquest through NCLive

Article: Bebop and the recording industry: the 1942 AFM recording ban reconsidered (includes abstract). S. DeVeaux. 
Periodical: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
Citation: 41:126-65 
Date: 1988 
Location: Music Library Stacks at Joyner ML27 U5 A83363

Article: Conversation with William Clarence (Billy) Eckstine, 'Mr. B.' of ballad and bop. E. Southern. 
Periodical: BLACK PERSPECTIVE IN MUSIC 
Citation: 8:54-64 n1 
Date: 1980 
Location: Music Library Stacks at Joyner ML3556 B6

Article: Conversation with William Clarence (Billy) Eckstine, 'Mr. B' of ballad and pop.  E. Southern. 
Periodical: BLACK PERSPECTIVE IN MUSIC 
Citation: 7:182-98 n2 
Date: 1979 
Location: Music Library Stacks at Joyner ML3556 B6

Article: The first big bop band.  G. Hoefer. 
Periodical: DOWN BEAT 
Citation: 32:23 
Date: No. 16, 1965 
Location: Music Library Microforms

BOOKS

Author: Dempsey Travis 
Title: An Autobiography of Black jazz. 
Imprint: Chicago, IL: Urban Research Institute, 1983. 
Location: Music Library Stacks ML3508 T7 1983

RECORDINGS

Title: Everything I have is yours: the best of the MGM years. 
Label: Verve 
Date: 1994 
Location: Music Library Media CD-2351

Title: Hoagy Carmichael. 
Label: Smithsonian Collection 
Date: 1993 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1466, vol. 9

Title: Duke Ellington. 
Label: Smithsonian Collection 
Date: 1993 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1466, vol. 10

Title: Best of the Jazz Vocalists. 
Label: Verve 
Date: 1992 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1632

Title: RCA Victor jazz: the first half- century: the 20's-60's. The 40s. 
Label: RCA Victor/Bluebird 
Date: 1992 
Location: Music Library Media CD-1325 

Title: Billy Eckstine sings with Benny Carter. 
Label: EmArcy 
Date: 1987 
Location: Music Library Media CD-773

Title: American Popular Song. 
Label: Smithsonian Collection 
Date: 1984 
Location: Music Library Media CD-2421 disc 3

Title: Jazz in revolution: big bands in the 1940's. 
Label: New World Records 
Date: 1977 
Location: Music Library Media R-311

Title: Dizzy Gillespie: the development of an American artist, 1940-1946.
Label: The Smithsonian Collection 
Date: 1976 
Location: Music Library Media RA-671

compiled 04-04-94 ask 
rev. 11-22-96 rc 
rev. 10-99 mb & dh 

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