June Christy
June Christy ( born November 20, 1925 in Springfield, Illinois as Shirley Luster, † 21 June 1990) was an American jazz singer.
Life and work
June Christy grew up in Decatur ( Illinois) and sang from 1938 in various local bands, including Bill Oetyel. After High Scholl 's degree, she moved to Chicago, where she sang in entertainment orchestras and finally at Boyd Raeburn. With his first radio recordings were made - " Shoo Shoo Baby" from 1943 is their first existing recording. However, when the Raeburn band wanted to go with her on tour, she fell ill with scarlet fever and had to stay behind. She then worked in a number of jazz clubs in the city as YeOld Cellar or at the Three Deuces.
As the successor of Anita O'Day 1945 she came to the Stan Kenton Orchestra and played with it hits like " How High The Moon" or "Tampico " a. 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. You took on its own club gigs, where she was accompanied by Johnny Guarnieri and the Nat Cole Trio. From the late 1940s, Christy won the regular polls and was regarded as one of the stars of Capitol Records; but it also emerged recordings ( with Nat Cole Trio) for Columbia as a member of the Metronome All-Stars. One of their hits was arranged by Pete Rugolo "Something Cool" by Billy Barnes. In addition to interesting albums like " The Misty Miss Christy " with Maynard Ferguson, Bud Shank and Shelly Manne she sang more commercial productions such as "My Heart Belongs To You". In 1951, she left the Stan Kenton band finally when he dissolved the Innovations Orchestra. It played some gigs with Kenton, so with a European tour in 1953 and a U.S. tour in 1959.
In their recordings as a soloist Pete Rugolo was often her arranger. In August 1953, started to record their album Something Cool; the title song was released as a single, followed in 1954 by a 25 - cm - LP, finally as a 30- cm mono LP with additional songs; this reached the edition of 93,000 pieces. In the 1960s, Christy and Rugolo recorded the album faithfully to in stereo. At Leonard Feather, she said, "Something Cool is my only recording with which I am not unhappy. " She made it with her further work with Rugolo to avoid Conventional; " Obscure, often adventurous melodies, amazing original background with constantly changing instrumentation and mood as well as Chistys subdued, honest emotional vocals characterize their Rugolos and joint plates ," Will Friedwald wrote in his book Swinging Voices.
She went with her husband Bob Cooper several times on tour in Europe (1953, 1957, 1958) and accompanied Ted Heath in 1957 and 1958 on his America tours. In 1965 she retired from the music business and returned only once, in 1977, for " Impromptu on Musicraft " back into the recording studio.
Discography
Collection
- The Complete Peggy Lee & June Christy Capitol Transcription Sessions ( Mosaic - 1998) 5 CDs June Christy, inter alia, Ray Wetzel, Dave Barbour, Eddie Safranski, Kai Winding, Bob Cooper, Arnold Ross, Shelly Manne