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| The Misty Miss Christy |
| June Christy |
első megjelenés éve: 1956
38 perc |
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| (1992)
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| 4.017 Ft
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| 1. | That's All
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| 2. | I Didn't Know About You
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| 3. | Day Dream
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| 4. | Sing Something Simple
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| 5. | Maybe You'll Be There
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| 6. | Dearly Beloved
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| 7. | 'Round Midnight
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| 8. | A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
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| 9. | Wind
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| 10. | This Year's Kisses
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| 11. | For All We Know
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| 12. | There's No You
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| 13. | You Took Advantage of Me
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| 14. | Intrigue
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Jazz
Vocal
Vocal Jazz
Cool
Traditional Pop
June Christy - Vocals
Alvin Stoller - Drums
Benny Aronov - Piano
Bob Cooper - Sax (Tenor)
Bob Gordon - Sax (Baritone)
Bud Shank - Flute, Sax (Alto)
Chuck Gentry - Sax (Baritone)
Claude Williamson - Piano
Conrad Gozzo - Trumpet
Corky Hale - Harp
Dick Noel - Trombone
Frank Rosolino - Trombone
George Roberts - Trombone
Harry Babasin - Bass
Harry Betts - Trombone
Harry Klee - Flute, Sax (Alto)
Herbie Harper - Trombone
Howard Roberts - Guitar
Joe Mondragon - Bass
John Graas - French Horn
Larry Bunker - Drums, Percussion
Laurindo Almeida - Guitar
Maynard Ferguson - Trumpet
Milt Bernhart - Trombone
Pete Candoli - Trumpet
Shelly Manne - Drums
* Jay Ranellucci - , Tape Transfer
* Michael Cuscuna - Producer
* Pete Rugolo - Arranger, Conductor
* Will Friedwald - Liner Notes
This atmospheric album with Pete Rugolo arrangements blends standards with jazz tunes such as Ellington's "I Didn't Know About You," Monk's "'Round Midnight" and Russ Freeman's "The Wind." Two bonus tracks have been added to the original album.
Using Anita Day as starting point -- but eschewing many of her scat-song histrionics in favor of pure tonal power and melancholic shading -- June Christy honed her singing skills with Stan Kenton's band before going solo in the '50s. Christy's relatively accessible vocal approach and blonde good looks eventually helped her gain success with such classic long players as Something Cool and The Misty Miss Christy. Less swinging than Something Cool, The Misty Miss Christy mostly stays on auto-stroll with a wealth of subtle and sophisticated orchestral charts. The jazz-pop environs come courtesy of longtime arranger Pete Rugolo and optimally frame the singer on highlights like "That's All," "I Didn't Know About You," and "Dearly Beloved." With West Coast-style brass and reed accents gliding atop the lush strings, Christy also turns in fine renditions of Monk's "Round Midnight" and Russ Freeman's expressionistically torchy "The Wind." Balancing out the predominant autumnal lull, Christy shows her swinging savvy on breezy gems like "Sing Something Simple," "There's No You," and "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening." Both an essential Christy title and one of the best vocal albums from the '50s.
--- Stephen Cook, 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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