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The Cool School remains the most complex and contradictory album in the June Christy catalog: a collection of children's music crafted without sentimentality or saccharine, it brilliantly articulates the confusion, isolation, and yearning that form the core of childhood experience. Equally surprising, the arrangements are the most direct and unadorned of Christy's career, eschewing horns and cotton-candy fluff to focus squarely on her crisp, nimble vocals and the Joe Castro Quartet's driving rhythms. Familiar songs like "Swinging on a Star" and "Looking for a Boy" are stripped of artifice to recapture their innate power and mystery. In short, The Cool School celebrates the intelligence of children, and refuses to pander to audiences of any age.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo
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Ned Washington, ComposerLyricist - Bill Miller, Producer - Leigh Harline, ComposerLyricist - June Christy, MainArtist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - Johnny Burke, Composer - June Christy, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - Ann Ronell, Composer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Ned Washington, Author - Bill Miller, Producer - Leigh Harline, Composer - June Christy, MainArtist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1959 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - GEORGE FORREST, ComposerLyricist - Robert Wright, ComposerLyricist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - Johnny Burke, Composer - June Christy, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bob Hilliard, Composer - Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble - Alfred Roy, Composer
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - Evelyn Danzig, Composer - JACK SEGAL, Composer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Composer - Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - Leroy Vinnegar, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Larry Bunker, Drums, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Howard Roberts, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Castro, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble, Performer, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
HOAGY CARMICHAEL, Composer - FRANK LOESSER, Composer - Bill Miller, Producer - June Christy, MainArtist - Leroy Vinnegar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Bunker, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Howard Roberts, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Castro, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Harold Arlen, Composer - Bill Miller, Producer - E.Y. HARBURG, Composer - June Christy, MainArtist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Bill Miller, Producer - Johnny Burke, ComposerLyricist - June Christy, MainArtist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Joe Castro Quartet, Ensemble
℗ 1960 Capitol Records
Album review
The Cool School remains the most complex and contradictory album in the June Christy catalog: a collection of children's music crafted without sentimentality or saccharine, it brilliantly articulates the confusion, isolation, and yearning that form the core of childhood experience. Equally surprising, the arrangements are the most direct and unadorned of Christy's career, eschewing horns and cotton-candy fluff to focus squarely on her crisp, nimble vocals and the Joe Castro Quartet's driving rhythms. Familiar songs like "Swinging on a Star" and "Looking for a Boy" are stripped of artifice to recapture their innate power and mystery. In short, The Cool School celebrates the intelligence of children, and refuses to pander to audiences of any age.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:19
- Main artists: June Christy
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: EMI Gold
- Genre: Jazz
© 1960 Capitol Records ℗ 1960 Capitol Records
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