A Jazz Date with Chris Connor/Chris Craft

by Chris Connor

Overview

Two of singer Chris Connor's finest Atlantic albums are reissued in full on this single CD. The laid-back yet coolly emotional jazz singer is heard backed by top-notch rhythm sections (with either Ralph Sharon or Stan Free being the pianist/arranger) and occasional horns (trumpeter Joe Wilder, flutist Sam Most, tenors Al Cohn and Lucky Thompson, flutist Bobby Jaspar and Al Epstein on English horn and bass clarinet) adding some short solos. Connor (then around 30) was in her prime, and her renditions of such songs as "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Lonely Town," "I'm Shooting High," "Moonlight in Vermont," and even "Johnny One Note" are memorable and sometimes haunting. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/16/1994
Label:	Rhino
UPC:	0081227174729

Tracks

1. Moonray
2. Poor Little Rich Girl
3. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
4. Fancy Free
5. It's a Most Unusual Day
6. All I Need Is You
7. It Only Happens When I Dance with You
8. Lonely Town
9. Ev'rything I've Got
10. Driftwood
11. I'm Shooting High
12. My Shining Hour
13. Moonlight in Vermont
14. Blow, Gabriel, Blow
15. Here Lies Love
16. Be a Clown
17. Good for Nothin' But Love
18. On the First Warm Day
19. Chinatown, My Chinatown
20. One Love Affair
21. The Night We Called It a Day
22. Johnny One Note
23. Lover Man
24. Be My All

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chris Connor   Primary Artist,Vocals
Mundell Lowe   Guest Artist,Guitar
Ed Shaughnessy   Guest Artist,Drums
Mongo Santamaria   Guest Artist,Congas
Al Cohn   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Percy Heath   Guest Artist,Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Lucky Thompson   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Oscar Pettiford   Guest Artist,Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Ralph Sharon   Guest Artist,Piano
George Duvivier   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Eddie Costa   Vibraphone
Joe Wilder   Trumpet
Sam Most   Flute
Lex Humphries   Drums
Bobby Jasper   Flute
Bill Rubinstein   Piano
Chino Pozo   Bongos
Kenny Burrell   Guitar
Stan Free   Piano
Bobby Jaspar   Flute
Chano Pozo   Bongos
Joe Puma   Guitar
Osie Johnson   Drums
Al Epstein   Horn,Horn (English),Clarinet (Bass)

Technical Credits

Adolph Green   Composer
Harold Adamson   Composer
William Jerome   Composer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Will Friedwald   Research
Ted Koehler   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Roger "Ram" Ramirez   Composer
Peter DeRose   Composer
Ralph Sharon   Arranger
Tom Dowd   Engineer,Recording
Tom Adair   Composer
Bart Howard   Composer
Gary Peterson   Reissue Supervisor
John Blackburn   Composer
Lee Gaines   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Peter Udell   Composer
James Van Heusen   Composer
Nesuhi Ertegun   Producer
Jimmy Davis   Composer
Rachel Gutek   Design
Lee Friedlander   Photography
Bob Doherty   Engineer,Recording
Maxwell Anderson   Composer
Jean Schwartz   Composer
Howard Cook   Liner Notes
Tommy Goodman   Composer
Johnny Cue   Recording
Patrick Milligan   Reissue Supervisor
Paul Madison   Composer
Betty Comden   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Stan Free   Arranger
Eddie DeLange   Composer
Jimmy Sherman   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Benny Davis   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Gene Paul   Remastering,Digital Remastering
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Karl Suessdorf   Composer
Ralph Rainger   Composer
Matt Dennis   Composer
Noel Coward   Composer
Michael Mazzarella   Research
Arthur Quenzer   Composer
Artie Shaw   Composer
Mitchell Parish   Composer