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Music CD - June Christy, Stan Kenton: Duet
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Music CD: Duet
Artist: June Christy, Stan Kenton
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.38
Your Save: $ 4.60 ( 38% )
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks:
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1. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
2. Lonely Woman
3. Just The Way I Am
4. You're Mine, You!
5. Angel Eyes
6. Come To The Party
7. Baby, Baby All The Time
8. We Kiss In A Shadow
9. How Long Has This Been Going On
10. Prelude To A Kiss
11. Thanks For You
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0077778928522
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 1993-08-10
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Christy & Kenton, Duet
Comment: This gets 5 stars because it is a gem in the tradition of jazz singing, female. It features June Christy in an intimate setting, with Stan Kenton at the piano. Christy was not a great voice, but her phrasings were wonderful, and her choice of repertoire generally excellent. Her version of "Baby, Baby All the Time", on this recording, is one of the standards. Kenton's piano style is a bit grandiose and flourishing for these tunes, but acceptable because, after all, that's his style. He does provide good support for Christy's singing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Singular Duet
Comment: Christy and Kenton combine in a flawless rendering of the pain and occasional joy of trying to connect with another human being. Kenton's dramatic solo piano is a perfect underscore to Christy's plaintif vocals. The selections, most of them seldom heard, are presented as an intimate confidence between two friends...like overhearing a private conversation: you want to draw away, but you're compelled to go on listening. Anyone who comes away from this CD not moved by the bittersweet experience isn't listening.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Stellar performances.
Comment: My pick for best-ever performances of these songs:
"How Long Has This Been Going On",
"(He called me) Baby, Baby, All The Time",
"Angel Eyes".
June Christie is incomparable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Utterly unique, cool but embracing
Comment: I've never heard a voice quite like Christy's--"cool" seems inadequate to describe a sound so direct, candid and honest, so human and devoid of artifice and posturing. Two comparable voices that come to mind are those of Chris Connor and Anita O'Day. But Christy's vocal placement is more "forward" and "center pitch" than Connor's and less self-conscious and elusive than O'Day's. Christy's round sound meets you head on, the fullness of its texture belying the slim, even petite, woman depicted on the album's cover. If there's an absence of sweetness, lightness, femininity and "play" in her approach, it's readily atoned for by the open and unguarded, full-bodied texture of each of her tones. And there's just enough of a lisp in her articulation to suggest the kind of vulnerability that was no less a part of Bogart's allure: cool, existential, to the point but with an undeniable lingering sweetness.
This is first-rate Christy, and Kenton's role is far more contributive that I could have expected. Less a "reactive" accompanist than a second "voice," stating thematic ideas and motives that serve as separate countermelodies to those of the vocalist, Kenton is still an extremely effective, and entirely musical, complement to the vocalist. His thickly textured chords, Rachmaninoff voicings and unremitting dynamic thunder are never too much for Christy, whose powerful projection and utter security with the material suggest that she could hold her own even with orchestration of Wagnerian proportions. (And it doesn't hurt that the engineers at Capitol have gone out of their way to favor Christy's voice in the mix.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: A stormy, treacherous masterwork
Comment: Stan Kenton and June Christy's DUET collaboration remains by far the most "difficult" album among Christy's top-notch Capitol recordings. While George Shearing was pairing up with other Capitol vocalists to produce satiny, slightly "cocktail hour" duet albums with the likes of Nat Cole and Peggy Lee, DUET finds Christy and her mentor Kenton in a series of jarring yet deeply-felt standards marked by their starkly contrasting instruments. Christy's sturdy-yet-vulnerable vocals nearly bounce off Kenton's complex, thick and often thunderous wall of chords. At the same time, the two are not battling it out, but instead somehow manage to produce a harrowing yet gorgeous set of beautifully realized songs. Like a late-career painting by Rembrandt -- dark, pschologically inward, intellectually challenging and ultimately deeply satisfying -- Stan Kenton and June Christy's DUET is a voice-and-piano masterwork that rewards increasingly with each listen.
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