http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/arts/music/01connor.html
She had a quite distinctive voice.
By STEPHEN HOLDENPublished: September 1, 2009 Chris Connor, the great jazz singer whose lush, foggy voice and compressed emotional intensity distilled a 1950s jazz reverie of faraway longing in a sad cafe, died on Saturday in Toms River, N.J. She was 81
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago)
love her. r.i.p. will play a record in her honor.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago)
Although I must admit she sounds a bit like Anita O'Day and June Christy
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13T2SiP6qRA&feature=related
"All About Ronny" is so gorgeous.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago)
bump
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 September 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago)
when i lived in tokyo, i used to go to this one coffee shop near ikebukuro, tiny and dingy and brown, could only fit about eight people at at time, and an entire wall taken up with records - the man who ran it loved Chris Connor particularly, and I'd never heard of her before, so we spent an entire afternoon going through the albums of hers he had and kind of going "that voice--" at each other, incoherently.
I've been meaning to write to him for a while: I'll have to, now.
― elephants of style (c sharp major), Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:06 (fifteen years ago)
Chris Connor Sings The George Gershwin Almanac Of Song is very nice.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago)
Would have turned 82 today.
― Run-WmC (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 November 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago)