Impromptu (June Christy album)

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Impromptu
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Studio album by
Released1977 (1977)
RecordedJune 7–9, 1977
Genre Vocal jazz
Length41:26
Label Interplay
Producer Albert Marx
June Christy chronology
Something Broadway, Something Latin
(1965)
Impromptu
(1977)

Impromptu is the final album by June Christy, recorded in 1977 and featuring the Lou Levy Sextet. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Shining Hour" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:20
  2. "Once Upon a Summertime" (Michel Legrand, Mercer) – 4:47
  3. "Show Me" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:23
  4. "Everything Must Change" (Bernard Ighner) – 6:09
  5. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 4:17
  6. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 3:48
  7. "The Trouble With Hello is Goodbye" (Dave Grusin, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – 3:56
  8. "Autumn Serenade" (Peter DeRose, Sammy Gallop) – 3:57
  9. "Sometime Ago" (Sergio Mihanovich) – 4:08
  10. "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) – 4:41

Personnel

Recorded at United/Western Studios, Los Angeles, California 7, 8 & 9 June 1977

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