No Cover, No Minimum

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No Cover, No Minimum
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Live album by
ReleasedAugust 30, 1960
Recorded1960
VenueNew Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas
Genre Jazz, Traditional pop
Length64:54
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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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.

Contents

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

Production

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References

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 416. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. Yanow, Scott. "No Cover, No Minimum". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 December 2018.