Chris Connor is one of many blond-haired kittens whose vocals were popular during the fifties. Like many of her fellow canaries, she got her start in the big bands (Thornhill's and Kenton's, in this ...

A Hard Day's Night; Downtown; A Taste Of Honey; The Shadow of Your Smile; Feeling Good; Who Can I Turn To; Can't Get Over the Bossa Nova; A Quiet Thing; Dear Heart; Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte; Baby ...

Strike Up the Band; Good Morning Heartache; But Not for Me; All the Things You Are; When the Wind Was Green; Poor Little Rich Girl; Lonely Woman; I Miss You So; I Am Gonna Go Fishin'. Chris Connor- ...

Chris Connor, a breathy jazz singer whose powerful caressing voice could ignite a big band as easily as steam up a trio or quartet, died on Saturday of cancer in Toms River, N.J. She was 81. Unfairly ...

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 ...

However listeners may receive this “new" album from Sounds of Yesteryear, there's no gainsaying its title, Connor Sings—Kenton Swings, as that secures its contents in a neat little box with no loose ...

There is always a moment of trepidation when a jazz legend produces a new record after an absence of several years; a fear that what is will diminish the memory of what was. Thankfully, that is not ...

All About Ronnie; Lullaby Of Birdland; What Is There To Say?; Try A Little Tenderness; Spring Is Here; Why Shouldn't I?; Lush Life; Out Of This World; A Cottage For Sale; How Long Has This Been Going ...