Off-Beat
Off-Beat is a 1960 album by American jazz vocalist June Christy, arranged and conducted by Pete Rugolo.
The tracks on the album were included on a 1997 double-CD re-issue under the title ''The Song Is June!''
Critical reception
wrote that "Pete Rugolo's typically unusual and surprising arrangements inspire the singer and make this a fairly memorable outing." Jazz Times, in a review of the album's reissue, wrote that "despite their vocal limitations, these performances are hauntingly expressive mementos of an artist who never gave less than her all, and is fondly remembered by a host of devotees."Track listing
- “Remind Me (Dorothy Fields and [Jerome Kern song)|Remind Me]”
- “Out of [This World (Johnny Mercer song)|Out of This World]”
- “You Wear Love So Well”
- “Off Beat”
- “The Bad and the Beautiful”
- “Who Cares About April?”
- “You Say You Care”
- “Out of the Shadows”
- “A Sleepin' Bee”
- “Somewhere ”
Personnel
- June Christy - vocals
- woodwinds including Bud Shank - also saxophone, flute
- Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone, oboe
- Larry Bunker - vibraphone
- Pete Rugolo - arranger, conductor
- string quartet
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 and 9
- June Christy - vocals
- trumpets including Don Fagerquist
- trombones including Frank Rosolino
- French horns
- woodwinds including Bud Shank - alto saxophone, flute
- Bob Cooper - tenor saxophone, oboe
- Joe Castro - piano
- Pete Rugolo - arranger, conductor