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Bobby Tucker
Bobby Tucker is credited on 295 releases across 83 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
295
Pressings credited
83
Albums
8
Decades active
58
In collections
Biography
Bobby Tucker (born Robert Nathaniel Tucker; January 8, 1923 – April 12, 2007) was a pianist and arranger during the jazz era from the 1940s into the 1960s. He is most famous for being Billie Holiday's accompanist from 1946 to 1949 and Billy Eckstine's from 1950 to 1993.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
295 releases · 83 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 401
- Other credits · 30
Studios: Radio City Music Hall · Yankee Stadium · Philharmonic Hall, New York · Mediasound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lady Sings The Blues
1956
The Wiz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1978
Newport In New York '72 - The Soul Sessions, Vol. 6
1972
Lady In Autumn: The Best Of The Verve Years
1991
Basie/Eckstine, Inc.
1959
Haunted Heart
1992
The Complete Billie Holiday On Verve 1945-1959
1992
Billie Holiday On Verve 1946-1959
1985
The Big Tenor (The Complete Ben Webster On EmArcy)
1985
Lady Day
1984
1942-1951-1954
1982
16 Classic Tracks
1982
Don't Explain
1982
Recital By Billie Holiday
1956
Billie Holiday
1954
Billie Holiday Sings
1952
Frequent collaborators
- Billie Holiday
- Billy Eckstine
- Various
- Wardell Gray
- Paul Quinichette
- Cliff Nobles
- Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra
- The Mills Brothers
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