Chris Connor
USA
Born: 08 November 1927
Died: 29 August 2009
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Cool, Torch Songs, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Vocal Jazz
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Along with June Christy, Helen O'Connell, and Julie London, Chris Connor epitomized cool jazz singing in the 1950s. Influenced by Anita O'Day, the torchy, smoky singer wasn't one for aggression. Like Chet Baker on the trumpet or Paul Desmond and Lee Konitz on alto sax, she used subtlety and restraint to their maximum advantage. At the University of Missouri, Connor (who had studied clarinet at an early age) sang with a Stan Kentonish big band led by trombonist Bob Brookmeyer before leaving her native Kansas City for New York in 1947. Quite appr...
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