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| The Intimate Miss Christy |
| June Christy |
első megjelenés éve: 1963
41 perc |
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| (2006)
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| 2.823 Ft
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| 1. | Spring Is Here
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| 2. | Fly Me to the Moon
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| 3. | I Fall in Love Too Easily
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| 4. | Time After Time
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| 5. | The More I See You
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| 6. | Don't Explain
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| 7. | It Never Entered My Mind
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| 8. | You're Nearer
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| 9. | Misty
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| 10. | Suddenly It's Spring
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| 11. | I Get Along with You Very Well
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| 12. | Ev'ry Time
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| 13. | Sometimes I'm Happy [*]
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| 14. | Tommy Tommy [*]
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Jazz / Vocal; Show Tunes; Traditional Pop; West Coast Jazz; Cool; Vocal Jazz
Recorded: Sep 1960-May 1963
June Christy - vocals
Al Viola - guitar
Bud Shank - flute
Jonah Jones - trumpet
Teddy Brannon - piano
Don Bagley
John Brown - upright bass
George Foster - drums
On June Christy's excellent run of albums for Capitol Records the vocalist was most often backed by Pete Rugolo's complex orchestral charts or by small, freewheeling jazz groups led by her husband, Bob Cooper. So The Intimate Miss Christy is a special treat for her fans as it finds the cool blonde singer backed only by Al Viola's guitar and Don Bagley's bass (though a flutist sits in on a few tracks). This guitar/bass-only approach was first popularized by Julie London and went on to be utilized by many other singers during this era. The backing not only suits the laid-back, cool jazz approach of June Christy perfectly, but it also means that the singer is never forced to strain too hard, as she sometimes did when working with the experimentally inclined Pete Rugolo. And while the vocalist usually put a dark emotional spin on her ballad readings, this album is definitely aimed more toward romantic entanglements than romantic regrets. The Intimate Miss Christy may be a fireside makeout album, but it's one that merits repeated listens even when the embers die out.
---Nick Dedina, AMG
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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