Artist: June Christy
Genre(s):
Vocal
Jazz
Other
Discography:
The Misty Miss Christy
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Something Cool
Year: 1960
Tracks: 11
Ballads for Night People
Year: 1960
Tracks: 18
Though she was the epitomy of the vocal cool movement of the 1950s, June Christy was a warm, debonaire vocalizer able-bodied to stretch out her telling voice on live sway tunes and ready herself apart from other vocalists with her misleadingly simple enunciation. From her time in Stan Kenton's Orchestra, she hereditary a focus on brassy swing from arranger friends like Pete Rugolo. Rugolo would become a consistent familiar far into her solo years likewise, arranging nearly of her LPs and reconciliation her gymnastic outspoken abilities with a series of heedful charts.
Innate Shirley Luster in Springfield, Illinois, she began telling early on and appeared with a local bon ton band during heights schoolhouse. She moved to Chicago in the early '40s, changed her distinguish to Sharon Leslie, and panax quinquefolius with a group light-emitting diode by Boyd Raeburn. In 1945, after listening 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 isaac Merrit Singer -- renamed June Christy -- soon found her possess style: a quick, debonair vox that stretched out attractively and enlivened Kenton's crossover novelties ("Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy," the million-selling "Tampico") as well as the leader's in an elaborate way staged standards ("How High the Moon"). As she became more and more democratic within the Kenton band, adapter Pete Rugolo began piece of writing charts with her trend especially in intellect. After the Kenton orchestra stony-broke up in 1948, Christy worked the nightspot circle 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 ahead, transcription for Capitol with a chemical group light-emitting diode by her married man, 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 reach the Top 20 album charts in America, as did a follow-up, The Misty Miss Christy. Her 1955 Duo LP opposite her voice with Kenton's piano, spell most of her Capitol LPs featured her with versatile Kenton personnel department and Rugolo (or Bob Cooper) at the head of the orchestra. She reprised her to begin with big band years 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 merely once, for 1977's Impromptu on Musicraft.
