No Cover, No Minimum

No Cover, No Minimum
Live album by Billy Eckstine
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
Basie and Eckstine, Inc. (1959) No Cover, No Minimum (1960) Once More with Feeling (1960)

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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

1. "Have a Song on Me" (Billy Eckstine) – 1:08
2. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:26
3. "Lady Luck" (Lloyd Price, Harold Logan) – 3:03
4. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:04
5. "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose) – 2:17
6. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 2:56
7. "I Want a Little Girl" (Billy Moll, Murray Mencher) – 2:02 ‡
8. 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 ‡
9. "Fools Rush In" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:12 ‡
10. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter) – 3:41 ‡
11. "Prisoner of Love" (Leo Robin, Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill) – 1:57 ‡
12. "Little Mama" (Eckstine, Sid Kuller) – 3:23 ‡
13. "I Apologise" (Eric Nelson, Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart) – 1:57 ‡
14. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) – 3:25 ‡
15. 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 ‡
16. "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Sidney Wyche, Mayme Watts) – 3:22 ‡
17. "'Deed I Do" (Fred Rose, Walter Hirsch) – 2:21
18. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:44
19. "That's for Me" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:25
20. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 3:20
21. "Misty" (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) – 5:07

‡: previously unreleased tracks, from the 1992 reissue.

Personnel

• 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

This page was last edited on 13 May 2023, at 09:50