Billy Eckstine
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William Clarence Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was po
Eckstine, c. 1946
Sarah Vaughan and Eckstine at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1981
Historical Marker in Highland Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lena Horne
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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.
Billy Eckstine
…Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Cecil Payne, Fats Navarro, Lucky Thompson, John Malachi, Sarah Vaughan, Pearl Bailey, and Lena Horne. Tadd Dameron, Gil Fuller and Jerry Valentine were among the band's arrangers. The Billy Eckstine Orchestra is considered to be the first bebop big-band…
Horne in 1946
Horne as Julie LaVerne in a mini-production of Show Boat in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), singing "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Horne singing "Why Was I Born?" in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)