Carmen McRae, Miles Davis Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Ruby Braff, Paul Desmond, June Christy, etc
Rodgers & Hart Songbook - Blue Moon [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
June Christy
Five Classic Albums (June's Got Rhythm / This Is June Christy / The Song Is June / Those Kenton Days / Off Beat) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Five Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from June Christy, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details |
June Christy
Four Classic Albums (Something Cool / Misty Miss Christy / Gone For The Day / Ballads For Night People) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from June Christy, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel detail... |
Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Keely Smith, NAt King Cole, June Christy, etc
Gershwin: Song Book Collection [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] An outstanding anthology presenting many classic vocalists and instrumentalists doing Gershwin selections. The honor roll includes Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Louis Prima, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Mel Torme and many others |
June Christy
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Mar/1992 ] This is a re-issued collection of former Stan Kenton vocalist June Christy singing with the Jerry Gray orchestra and Shelly Manne combos. |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 1 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/1998 ] Would you believe that June Christy was only four years old when she made these recordings? No, she was not a child prodigy, but actually, as far as music is concerned, the name 'June Christy' simply did not exist until Summer, 1945. |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 2 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] By the time these songs were recorded, 23-year-old June Christy had an interesting Curriculum Vitae - in brief, six years of obscurity and four years of stardom. After several chilly seasons in Chicago, singing (sometimes) and learning how to... |
June Christy with Johnny Guarnieri
A Friendly Session, Vol. 3 [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Aug/2000 ] This is the third in a series of songs sung by June Christy with piano accompaniment from Johnny Guarnieri during a radio series from the late 1940s. Like the two earlier volumes, this CD chronicles her conversion from lead singer for Stan Kenton... |
June Christy with Stan Kenton
Somewhere There's Music [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2000 ] Stan Kenton rarely recruited well-known performers to his orchestra - take June Christy, for example. In March, 1945, shortly after award-winning singer Anita O'Day had left Kenton to try her luck as a single act, Stan invited the completely... |