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Artist: June Christy: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Vocal Jazz Other     June Christy's 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 vocaliser able-bodied to stretch extinct her tattle voice on live carry tunes and ready herself apart from other vocalists with her misleadingly unsubdivided enunciation. From her time in Stan Kenton's Orchestra, she transmissible a focus on garish swing from arranger friends like Pete Rugolo. Rugolo would become a consistent familiar far into her solo days likewise, transcription 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.

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Rapper JAY-Z has linked New York officials in an effort to transform the city's congested streets into traffic-free playgrounds.

The hip-hop mogul met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday (07Aug08) to announce the kick-off of Summer Streets, a new programme that will close 11.3 kilometres (seven miles) of city roads spanning from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park.

The native New Yorker is hoping his engagement will invigorate teens to get involved in more than positive activities, according to the New York Post.

The programme, which will ban cars from streets spanning the east face of Manhattan, is scheduled to run every Saturday until 23 August (08).

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