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| Ballads for Night People |
| June Christy |
| első megjelenés éve: 1959 |
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| (2005)
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| 4.017 Ft
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| 1. | Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
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| 2. | Night People
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| 3. | Do Nothing 'Til You Hear from Me
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| 4. | I Had a Little Sorrow
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| 5. | I'm in Love
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| 6. | Shadow Woman
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| 7. | Kissing Bug
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| 8. | My Ship
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| 9. | Don't Get Around Much Anymore
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| 10. | Make Love to Me
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| 11. | I Know About Love
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| 12. | Cry Like the Wind
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| 13. | Make Someone Happy
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| 14. | Asking for You
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| 15. | All You Need Is a Quarter
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Jazz
Vocal
Cool
Vocal Jazz
Show Tunes
Traditional Pop
Al Viola - Guitar
Bob Cooper - Arranger, Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
Bud Shank - Flute, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto)
Buddy Collette - Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
Frank Rosolino - Trombone
Jim Decker - French Horn
Joe Castro - Piano
Joe Gordon - Trumpet
Kathyrine Julye - Harp
Mel Lewis - Drums
Monty Budwig - Bass
Norman Benno - Bassoon, Horn (English), Oboe
Red Callender - Bass
Shelly Manne - Drums
Stan Levey - Drums
Vincent DeRosa - French Horn
* Bill Miller - Producer
* Michael Cuscuna - Reissue Producer
* Patrick Roques - Art Direction, Design
* Ron McMaster - Mastering, Remixing
* Will Friedwald - Liner Notes
June Christy's pure, languid voice is usually heard in front of an orchestra and a trio, but on "Blues For Night People" her husband, arranger-saxophonist Bob Cooper fashioned beautiful atmospheric arrangements for sextet and tentet. The ten songs include gems by Ellington, Strayhorn and Kurt Weill. Added to the original 1959 album are five songs from Do-Re-Mi recorded two years later in a similar setting. Newly remixed and remastered in 24 bit.
* Tracks 11-15 are from Do-Re-Mi recorded two years later in a similar setting.
The music on Ballads for Night People (not reissued on CD) features the popular singer June Christy in a ballad-oriented program. She is backed by trombonist Frank Rosolino, a French horn, a sax section, a rhythm section, and a harp, all arranged by her husband, tenor saxophonist Bob Cooper. One in a long string of Christy's Capitol recordings, this fine set (highlighted by "Bewitched," "Do Nothin' 'Till You Hear from Me," "Kissing Bug," and "My Ship") holds its own with the singer's best sets. [This version of the album contains bonus material.]
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
June Christy
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Nov 20, 1925 in Springfield, IL
Died: Jun 21, 1990 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Vocal; Jazz
Styles: Cool, Show Tunes, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
Though she was the epitomy of the vocal cool movement of the 1950s, June Christy was a warm, chipper vocalist able to stretch out her impressive voice on bouncy swing tunes and set herself apart from other vocalists with her deceptively simple enunciation. From her time in Stan Kenton's Orchestra, she inherited a focus on brassy swing from arranger friends like Pete Rugolo. Rugolo would become a consistent companion far into her solo days too, arranging most of her LPs and balancing her gymnastic vocal abilities with a series of attentive charts.
Born Shirley Luster in Springfield, Illinois, she began singing early on and appeared with a local society band during high school. She moved to Chicago in the early '40s, changed her name to Sharon Leslie, and sang with a group led by Boyd Raeburn. In 1945, after hearing that Anita O'Day had just left Stan Kenton's Orchestra, she auditioned for the role and got it early that year. Despite an early resemblance (physically and vocally) to O'Day, the singer -- renamed June Christy -- soon found her own style: a warm, chipper voice that stretched out beautifully and enlivened Kenton's crossover novelties ("Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy," the million-selling "Tampico") as well as the leader's intricately arranged standards ("How High the Moon"). As she became more and more popular within the Kenton band, arranger Pete Rugolo began writing charts with her style especially in mind. After the Kenton orchestra broke up in 1948, Christy worked the nightclub circuit for awhile before reuniting with Kenton for his 1950 Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, a very modern forty-piece group that toured America. She had already debuted as a solo act the year before, recording for Capitol with a group led by her husband, Kenton tenor-saxophonist Bob Cooper.
Christy's debut LP for Capitol, 1954's Something Cool, was recorded with Rugolo at the head of the orchestra. The album launched the vocal cool movement and hit the Top 20 album charts in America, as did a follow-up, The Misty Miss Christy. Her 1955 Duet LP paired her voice with Kenton's piano, while most of her Capitol LPs featured her with various Kenton personnel and Rugolo (or Bob Cooper) at the head of the orchestra. She reprised her earlier big-band days with 1959's June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days, and recorded a raft of concept LPs before retiring in 1965. Christy returned to the studio only once, for 1977's Impromptu on Musicraft.
--- John Bush, All Music Guide |
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