Eckstine,Billy

Wardell Gray with Billy Eckstine & Sonny Criss: An Unissued Radio Broadcast!

There is a substantial website, by Stuart Varden and our friend James Accardi, devoted to the beloved saxophonist Wardell Gray (1921-1955). If you click…

Aug 9 • Lewis Porter

Earl Hines: His Unrecorded Band with Parker and Gillespie, by Leif Bo Petersen,2: A Destroyed Recording! (+Bonus)

(From Lewis: In the first essay, Petersen took the Hines band through the Fall of 1942.

Feb 15, 2024 • Lewis Porter

Earl Hines: His Unrecorded Band with Parker and Gillespie, by Leif Bo Petersen,1 (+Bonus)

Guest Essay by Leif Bo Petersen

Dec 10, 2023 • Lewis Porter

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