June was so good, and her music is so infectious. I like Diana Krall a lot, but June's voice was so much better. Check out My One And Only Love, stereo versions of Something Cool, Lonely House, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise, The Night We Called It A Day. The liner notes concerning June's live performances are shocking, I hope June came to understand how much she was loved and still is loved.

She was the best of the many singers who followed in the so called footsteps of ANITA O'DAY.Over the years, she managed to established her own name.Good liner notes present here well ,with her daughter saying:my mother was not a cold person.Like many jazz divas, her life was not so cool ,but its the records that tell us all at the end.JUNE deserves to be remembered well.While everything is worthy here,i am especially fond of the RODGERS song.

This is a great collection, worth getting even if you've heard some of the songs on the source albums/CDs. Christy gives her all on these ballads, often taking tricky, nearly ponderous material (like "Interlude") and turning it into heartfelt, direct music. For my money, the highlight is the stereo version of "Something Cool." It's sung in a voice that has a bit more wobble than the "Something Cool" voice of six or seven years earlier, but Christy more than compensates with devastatingly apt phrasing; in fact, I prefer this version. It's one gem among several here.

Let's hope Capitol releases THE COOL SCHOOL next.

Capitol has been promising this collection more than two years. Originally the title was "The Intimate June Christy" until someone realized there's already a famous album titled "The Intimate Miss Christy." So we get "The Ballad Collection" which almost was "The Ballad Compilation." Title aside, this is the finest compilation Capitol yet has done on Christy. Finally we get at least some of the stereo version of the "Something Cool" album, very different in sound and depth despite using the same arrangements and many of the same musicians as the original. Finally we get tracks from the splendid Christmas album "This Time of Year" and the wonderful "Do Re Mi" album June did with her husband Bob Cooper. And we get many Christy masterpieces, including "Interlude" and "Nobody's Heart." The album notes are insightful, though for my tastes they dwell too much on personal issues and can't stop there but go on to comment on the misfortunates of virtually every singer who ever was with Stan Kenton's band. It is nice hearing from June's beloved daughter Shay, who appeared on the cover of "The Cool School" and often could be found at June Christy engagements. And it is nice that at long last Christy is getting her just due as a brilliant, unique and hypnotic artist. Let's hope Capitol will issue all her albums on C.D.-so much fabulous is still missing.

Capitol has done a nice job of combining the late June Christy's most popular ballads ("Something Cool," "The Night We Called It a Day," etc.) with some that didn't get as much attention the first time around like "This Time of Year" and "Winter's Got Spring Up Its Sleeve." The result is just under an hour's worth of that wonderful Christy voice, with excellent liner notes by producer James Gavin. If you like June Christy, you'll love this one.