About This Song
About "Summertime" by Billy Eckstine
Eckstine turns Gershwin's lullaby into a slow, sultry meditation. The 'summertime' here isn't just a season but a state of suspended desire, where the air is thick and the living is easy but charged. The tension is between the song's inherent serenity and the simmering, adult passion in his phrasing.