June Christy
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June Christy (born November 20, 1925 as Shirley Luster in Springfield , Illinois , † June 21, 1990 ) was an American jazz singer .
Live and act
June Christy grew up in Decatur (Illinois) and sang in various regional bands from 1938, including a. at Bill Oetyel. After graduating from high school, she went to Chicago, where she sang in entertainment orchestras and eventually with Boyd Raeburn . With him she made her first radio recordings - Shoo Shoo Baby from 1943 is her first existing recording. When the Raeburn Band wanted to go on tour with her, however, she fell ill with scarlet fever and had to stay behind. She then worked in several of the city's jazz clubs, including YeOld Cellar and Three Deuces .
As the successor to Anita O'Day , she joined Stan Kenton's orchestra in 1945 and played hits with him such as How High The Moon and Tampico . In 1947 she recorded her first solo record, Skip Rope with Kenton's musicians for Capitol Records ; During this time she married Bob Cooper , a colleague from the Kenton Band. She now took on her own club appearances, where she was accompanied by Johnny Guarnieri and the Nat Cole Trio . From the late 1940s, Christy regularly won the polls and was considered one of the stars of Capitol Records; But there were also recordings (with Nat Cole's Trio) for Columbia as a member of the Metronome All-Stars . One of her hits was that of Pete Rugolo arranged Something Cool by Billy Barnes . In addition to interesting albums such as The Misty Miss Christy with Maynard Ferguson , Bud Shank and Shelly Manne , she also sang more commercial productions such as My Heart Belongs To You . In 1951 she left the Stan Kenton Band for good when the latter disbanded the Innovations Orchestra . A few more appearances with Kenton followed, for example on a European tour in 1953 and a US tour in 1959.
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Pete Rugolo was often her arranger on her recordings as a soloist . In August 1953, the recording of their album Something Cool began, the title song was released as a single, followed in 1954 by a 25 cm LP, finally as a 30 cm mono LP with further songs; this reached the circulation of 93,000 pieces. In the 1960s, Christy and Rugolo recorded the album true to the original in stereo . To Leonard Feather she said, " Something Cool is my only recording with which I am not unhappy." She made it with their further work with Rugolo to avoid Conventional; "Obscure, often adventurous melodies, astonishingly original backgrounds with constantly changing instrumentation and mood as well as Christy's muted, honestly emotional singing characterize their and Rugolo's records together," wrote Will Friedwald in his book Swinging Voices .
She went with her husband Bob Cooper on several European tours (1953, 1957, 1958) and accompanied Ted Heath on his American tours in 1957 and 1958. In 1965 she retired from the music business and only returned to the recording studio once, in 1977, for Impromptu on Musicraft .
Discography
| Published | album | Record company |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Something Cool (10 ″ LP) | Capitol Records |
| 1955 | Something Cool (12 ″ LP) | Capitol Records |
| 1955 | Duet | Capitol Records |
| 1956 | The Misty Miss Christy | Capitol Records |
| 1957 | June, Fair and Warmer! | Capitol Records |
| 1957 | Gone for the day | Capitol Records |
| 1958 | This Is June Christy | Capitol Records |
| 1958 | June's Got Rhythm | Capitol Records |
| 1958 | The Song Is June! | Capitol Records |
| 1959 | Recalls Those Kenton Days | Capitol Records |
| 1959 | Ballads For Night People | Capitol Records |
| 1960 | The Cool School | Capitol Records |
| 1960 | Something cool | Capitol Records |
| 1960 | Off beat | Capitol Records |
| 1960 | Thu-Re-Wed (with Bob Cooper) | Capitol Records |
| 1961 | This time of year | Capitol Records |
| 1962 | Big band specials | Capitol Records |
| 1963 | The Intimate Miss Christy | Capitol Records |
| 1965 | Something Broadway, Something Latin | Capitol Records |
| 1977 | impromptu | Interplay Records |
| 1977 | June Christy 1977 | Trio PAP |
| 1986 | A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening (Compilation) | Jasmine Records |
collection
- The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions . Mosaic , 1998 - 5 CDs. June Christy et al. a. with Ray Wetzel , Dave Barbour , Eddie Safranski , Kai Winding , Bob Cooper , Arnold Ross , Shelly Manne
literature
- Will Friedwald: Swinging Voices of America - A Compendium of Great Voices . Hannibal, St. Andrä-WIERT, 1992, ISBN 3-85445-075-3 .
Web links
- June Christy at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from W. Friedwald, p. 212.
- ↑ Quoted from W. Friedwald, p. 212 f. He counts in particular the albums The Misty Miss Christy (1956), Fair Warmer, Gone for the Day (both 1957) and Off Beat (1959), while the duo album with Kenton on piano, Duet (1955), was a disaster got. Christy was not satisfied with this album and later criticized it as being monotonous on Down Beat . See Too Cool for Words ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ June Christy Discography ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Christy, June |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luster, Shirley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Springfield , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1990 |