No Cover, No Minimum
| No Cover, No Minimum | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | August 30, 1960 | |||
| Recorded | 1960 | |||
| Venue | New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas | |||
| Genre | Jazz, Traditional pop | |||
| Length | 64:54 | |||
| Label | Roulette | |||
| Producer | Teddy Reig | |||
| Billy Eckstine chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [1] |
No Cover, No Minimum is a live album by Billy Eckstine that was recorded in Las Vegas.[2] The album was released by Roulette in 1960 and reissued by Blue Note in 1992 with ten additional tracks.
Track listing
[edit]- "Have a Song on Me" (Billy Eckstine) – 1:08
- "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:26
- "Lady Luck" (Lloyd Price, Harold Logan) – 3:03
- "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:04
- "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose) – 2:17
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:56
- "I Want a Little Girl" (Billy Moll, Murray Mencher) – 2:02 ‡
- Medley: "Prelude to a Kiss"/"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mack Gordon)/(Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 4:56 ‡
- "Fools Rush In" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:12 ‡
- "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter) – 3:41 ‡
- "Prisoner of Love" (Leo Robin, Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill) – 1:57 ‡
- "Little Mama" (Eckstine, Sid Kuller) – 3:23 ‡
- "I Apologise" (Eric Nelson, Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart) – 1:57 ‡
- "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) – 3:25 ‡
- Medley: "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"/"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" – (Ellington, Mills, Henry Nemo, John Redmond)/(Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:08 ‡
- "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Sidney Wyche, Mayme Watts) – 3:22 ‡
- "'Deed I Do" (Fred Rose, Walter Hirsch) – 2:21
- "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:44
- "That's for Me" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:25
- "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 3:20
- "Misty" (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) – 5:07
‡: previously unreleased tracks, from the 1992 reissue.
Personnel
[edit]- Billy Eckstine – vocals, trumpet
- Charlie Walp – trumpet
- Bucky Manieri – trombone
- Buddy Balboa – saxophone
- Charlie McLean – saxophone
- Bobby Tucker – piano, arranger
- Buddy Grievey – drums
Production
- Teddy Reig – producer
- Wally Heider – engineer
- Will Friedwald – liner notes
References
[edit]- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "No Cover, No Minimum". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
