Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
# Basie/Eckstine Incorporated

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Basie/Eckstine Incorporated is a 1959 studio album featuring Billy Eckstine and the Count Basie Orchestra. It was released by Roulette Records and marked Eckstine and Basie's only recorded collaboration.

## Track listing

* "Stormy Monday Blues" - 3:11
* "Lonesome Lover Blues" (Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine) - 3:08
* "Blues, the Mother of Sin" (Eckstine, Sid Kuller) - 3:41
* "Jelly, Jelly" (Eckstine, Earl Hines) - 3:02
* "Don't Cry Baby" (James P. Johnson, Saul Bernie, Stella Unger) - 3:31
* "Trav'lin' All Alone" (J. C. Johnson) - 2:54
* "Little Mama" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 3:29
* "I Want a Little Girl" (Billy Moll, Murray Mencher) - 3:25
* "Drifting" (Charles Brown, Johnny Moore, Eddie Williams) - 3:59
* "Song of the Wanderer" (Neil Moret) - 3:22
* "Piano Man" (Eckstine, Kuller) - 4:04

## Personnel

* Billy Eckstine - vocals

### The Count Basie Orchestra

* Count Basie - piano
* Marshal Royal - lead alto saxophone
* Frank Wess - alto saxophone, flute
* Frank Foster, Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone
* Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
* Thad Jones, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, Snooky Young - trumpet
* Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell - trombone
* Freddie Green - guitar
* Eddie Jones - double bass
* Sonny Payne - drums
* Bobby Tucker - additional piano
* Quincy Jones, Thad Jones & Bobby Tucker - arrangers

## Production

* Teddy Reig - producer
* Michael Cuscuna - CD reissue producer
