title: Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
text: # 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
  