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From the soundie: I'M GONNA LOVE THAT GUY 1945June Christy was quite simply one of the best Jazz singers ever. She sang with some lesser known bands before ...
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Something Cool is the debut solo album by June Christy, released on Capitol Records first as a 10-inch LP of seven selections in August of 1954, and then as a 12-inch LP of eleven selections the following August, both times in monophonic sound. The original seven selections for the 1954 release were recorded over seven sessions from August of ...
June Christy. She was Stan Kenton 's big band singer, replacing Anita O'Day in 1945. She also worked with Bruce Boyd Raeburn and his orchestra before she joined the Kenton band. This blonde, blue-eyed singer is one of the most talented female singers in the history of jazz. She recorded many albums for Capitol records in the fifties, the most ...
20. Aug. 2020 · Image: Library of Congress. June Christy (1925-1990) was one of many female vocalists, like Peggy Lee and Doris Day, who emerged from the rigors of the Big Band era of the 1930s and ‘40s to become major recording artists in their own right. Today, Christy is best known as an innovator in the Cool Jazz genre of the 1950s; her voice—a smoky ...
17. Aug. 2021 · June Christy, born Shirley Luster in 1925 in Springfield, Illinois, was one of the great vocalists of cool jazz, and – I’d argue – one of the greatest in the history of the music. She replaced Anita O’Day in the Stan Kenton Orchestra in 1945, and had a hit with the million-selling Tampico, Kenton’s biggest-selling record. From 1947, as well as working and recording with Kenton, she ...
26. Aug. 2018 · Sun 26 Aug 2018 02.59 EDT. O f all the singers of the classic American generation, the generation of Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, June Christy (1925-90) is perhaps the most scandalously neglected ...
23. Juni 1990 · June Christy, who gained fame as vocalist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the 1940s and earned the label “the grande dame of modern jazz singing,” has died. She was 64. She was 64.
