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    Chris Connor, Jazz Singer Whose Voice Embodied a Wistful Cool, Dies at 81

    Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:17:22

    Anita O'Day, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, Joe Greene, George Gershwin


    Chris Connor, Jazz Singer Whose Voice Embodied a Wistful Cool, Dies at 81

    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 and lived in Toms River. Chris Connor at the ...Full Story at The New York Times »

    Tags: Anita O'Day, Stan Kenton, Peggy Lee, Joe Greene, George Gershwin, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Jones, Ralph Burns, John Lewis, Phil Woods, Kenny Burrell, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton