Альбомы исполнителя
The Ballad Collection
2000 · альбом
The Best Of June Christy: Jazz Sessions
1996 · сборник
Day Dreams
1995 · альбом
Great Ladies Of Song / Spotlight On June Christy
1995 · альбом
The Capitol Transcriptions 1945-1946
2020 · альбом
The Cool Jazz of June Christy (Remastered)
2019 · альбом
The Best Of June Christy
2007 · сборник
Something Cool (1955 Version)
1954 · альбом
Duet (Expanded Edition)
1955 · альбом
The Misty Miss Christy
1956 · альбом
Fair And Warmer
1957 · альбом
Gone For The Day
1957 · альбом
This Is June Christy
1958 · альбом
The Song Is June!
1958 · альбом
June's Got Rhythm
1958 · альбом
June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days
1959 · альбом
Something Cool (1960 Version)
1960 · альбом
The Cool School
1960 · альбом
Ballads For Night People
1960 · альбом
Off Beat
1960 · альбом
This Time Of The Year
1961 · альбом
Do-Re-Mi
1961 · альбом
Big Band Specials
1963 · альбом
The Intimate Miss Christy
1963 · альбом
Something Broadway, Something Latin
1965 · сборник
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Биография
Though she was the epitome 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, IL, 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 40-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, Rovi