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Music : Something Cool
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Something Cool by: June Christy |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724353406929 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: October 23, 2001 Studio: Blue Note Records Sales Rank: 49884 MPN: 34069 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - julie christy something coolThe album is very refreshing and just great for those who like the older standards kind of music. Great Album Rating:  - June Christie at her individual best!Lovely Christie singing - 2 LP's and more on one disc! Superb '50's style, what more can one say, highly recommended! Rating: - Nice and CoolThis fine example of popular cool singing is very fine and agreable, although I'm not quite certain that the jazz criteria are met to the foolest extent (there are equally cool but more jazzy artists - for instance Mel Torme)... This is very good singing and quite competent orchestral playing, but on the level of lesser performances by Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. Great thing is that this CD brings both versions of the album; I recommend the later stereo recording; Christy seems to develop a bit between two versions. Rugolo's arrangements are OK, but not quite to my taste. Rating: - It must be June...Of all the great jazz ladies, June Christy is still very much a particular favourite of mine. Her singing is totally organic, straight to the point. Nothing sounds artificial or forced. Here, Blue Note Records has reissued both stereo and mono versions of her 1953 album 'Something Cool' on one great-value disc. While Christy found initial fame under the musical direction of Stan Kenton, her series of albums on the Capitol label (through to the early 1960s) acutely displayed her sublime talents as a jazz diva, and never more so than on her debut platter. Under the guidance of Pete Rugolo and his orchestra, Christy glides through "It Could Happen to You" (in one of the greatest arrangements EVER), "Midnight Sun", "I Should Care", ... Read More: Rating: - Two Albums over the time STEREO came into powerYou HAVE to get this album not only for June Christy's great skill as a band vocalist, and for the stellar playing of the many fine jazz and studio cats who laid down these tracks (many come from Kenton. . .but don't think that this is just another Kenton album. . Christy definitely had her own album here!). You HAVE to get this to hear what the exact same arrangements played by mostly the same performers sound like in beautiful HiFi MONO and then again in beautiful STEREO. It is a treat to your hearing faculties to compare the two. Like DAY and NIGHT. . .Night and Day. . .Hey! There's a song in that line. . . The album is great with or without the Mono / Stereo thing. . .but I sure wish this kind of thing was done more ... Read More: |
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