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The Cool School

June Christy

SKU: PPR1398

Barcode: 5060149621363

17.00 £17.00
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Pure Pleasure
  • Released Date: 12th January 2011
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP
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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.

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Track Listings

1. Give a Little Whistle
2. The Magic Window
3. Baby's Birthday Party
4. When You Wish Upon a Star
5. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
6. Aren't You Glad You're You
7. Kee-Mo Ky-Mo
8. Scarlet Ribbons
9. Looking For a Boy
10. Small Fry
11. Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead
12. Swingin' On a Star

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