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June Christy:
Ballads for Night People/The Intimate Miss Christy (1999)

Album review by Nick Dedina (~allmusic.com)
This is another swell two-for-one album pairing from the British wing of EMI. This one features two of June Christy's classic Capitol recordings, each of which showcases her in small-group jazz settings. The superior Ballads for Night People features Christy backed by a superb cool jazz group led by her husband, Bob Cooper. As befits its title, this session is generally dark in tone but it also really swings.

The Intimate Miss Christy is more warmly romantic and finds the vocalist backed only by guitar, bass, and the occasional flute. This one is geared more toward fireside smooching then Christy's usual nocturnal regret or daylight exuberance. Christy was always a great interpretive vocalist, but she was at her most relaxed and natural in the type of small-group jazz settings that are featured on these two albums.

June Christy, 1925-1990, Singer

Videos » June Christy with the Ernie Filice Quartet - Imagination

June Christy, Singer
Born: November 20, 1925
Died: June 21, 1990

"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."   ~John Bush (allmusic.com)

June Christy, 1925-1990, Singer

June Christy - A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening (with Stan Kenton and His Orchestra)

June Christy, Singer
Born: November 20, 1925
Died: June 21, 1990

June was born as Shirley Luster on November 20, 1925 at the Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Illinois and was raised from the age of three in Decatur, Illinois; and from the beginning always wanted to sing.

~all·about·jazz

June Christy, 1925-1990, Singer